Alteration of rat hippocampal neurogenesis and neuronal nitric oxide synthase expression upon prenatal exposure to tamoxifen

Pathophysiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 263-272

  Nobakht, Maliheh ^a,b   Gharavi, Mohammad Javad ^b   Mousavizadeh, Kazem ^b   Bakhshayesh, Maasoumeh ^b   Ghafourifar, Pedram ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Tri State Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing brain; Hippocampus; Nitric oxide; Rat; Tamoxifen

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SUBICULUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 79960981097     PISSN: 09284680     EISSN: 1873149X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pathophys.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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