Sex differences and synchronous development of steroid receptor coactivator-1 and synaptic proteins in the hippocampus of postnatal female and male C57BL/6 mice

Steroids

Volumn 77, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 149-156

  Bian, Chen ^a   Zhu, Kongjiang ^a   Guo, Qiang ^a   Xiong, Ying ^a   Cai, Wenqin ^a   Zhang, Jiqiang ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Sex difference; Steroid receptor coactivator 1; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; NERVE PROTEIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; STEROID RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 1; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GUANYLATE KINASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 1; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 83655167041     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: 18785867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2011.11.002     Document Type: Article

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