Kalirin-7, an important component of excitatory synapses, is regulated by estradiol in hippocampal neurons

Hippocampus

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 661-677

  Ma, Xin Ming ^a   Huang, Jian Ping ^a   Kim, Eun Ji ^a   Zhu, Qing ^a   Kuchel, George A ^a   Mains, Richard E ^a   Eipper, Betty A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; GABA; Spine plasticity; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; KALININ;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EXCITATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITIC SPINES; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; GABA-B RECEPTOR AGONISTS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SYNAPSES;

EID: 79956370101     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20780     Document Type: Article

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