Selective estrogen receptor modulators as brain therapeutic agents

Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Arevalo, María Angeles ^a   Santos Galindo, María ^a   Lagunas, Natalia ^a   Azcoitia, Iñigo ^b   Garcia Segura, Luis M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ARZOXIFENE; RALOXIFENE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; TAMOXIFEN;

AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BREAST CANCER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMYELINATION; ENCEPHALITIS; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN INJURIES; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RALOXIFENE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 79551718178     PISSN: 09525041     EISSN: 14796813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JME-10-0122     Document Type: Review

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