Local infusion of ghrelin enhanced hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial memory through activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase in the dentate gyrus of adult rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 266-275

  Chen, Liang ^a   Xing, Tairan ^a   Wang, Ming ^a   Miao, Yanyan ^a   Tang, Mingliang ^a   Chen, Jutao ^a   Li, Guangwu ^b   Ruan, Di Yun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ghrelin; Long term potentiation; Phosphoinositide 3 kinase; Spatial memory; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; HIGH FREQUENCY STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFUSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GHRELIN; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78651424438     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07491.x     Document Type: Article

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