Age- and hormone-regulation of opioid peptides and synaptic proteins in the rat dorsal hippocampal formation

Brain Research

Volumn 1379, Issue , 2011, Pages 71-85

  Williams, Tanya J ^a,b   Mitterling, Katherine L ^a,c   Thompson, Louisa I ^a,c   Torres Reveron, Annelyn ^a,d   Waters, Elizabeth M ^c   McEwen, Bruce S ^c   Gore, Andrea C ^e   Milner, Teresa A ^a,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Estrogen; Hippocampus; Opioids; PSD 95; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

DYNORPHIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN; OPIATE PEPTIDE; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; STEROID HORMONE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROCAPSULE; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPIOID PEPTIDES; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79952315927     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.08.103     Document Type: Article

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