Environmental enrichment alters gene expression of steroidogenic enzymes in the rat hippocampus

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-32

  Munetsuna, Eiji ^a,c   Hattori, Minoru ^a   Sakimoto, Yuya ^a   Ishida, Atsuhiko ^a   Sakata, Shogo ^a   Hojo, Yasushi ^b   Kawato, Suguru ^b   Yamazaki, Takeshi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase; 5 reductase 1; Allopregnanolone; Environmental enrichment; Hippocampus; Molecular psychology; Neuroactive steroid; Real time RT PCR

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 3ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REARING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 79951509852     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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