Chronic corticosterone exposure alters postsynaptic protein levels of PSD-95, NR1, and synaptopodin in the mouse brain

Synapse

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 763-770

  Cohen, Julia W ^a   Louneva, Natalia ^a   Han, Li Ying ^a   Hodes, Georgia E ^a   Wilson, Robert S ^b   Bennett, David A ^b   Lucki, Irwin ^a   Arnold, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic spine; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; Postsynaptic density; Stress; Synaptosome

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CALCIUM; CORTICOSTERONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; SYNAPTOPODIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DENSITOMETRY; DENTATE GYRUS; FRACTIONATION; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPINE; SYNAPSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; GUANYLATE KINASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; POST-SYNAPTIC DENSITY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 79957789187     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20900     Document Type: Article

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