Neurosteroid PREGS protects neurite growth and survival of newborn neurons in the hippocampal dentate gyrus of APPswe/PS1dE9 Mice

Current Alzheimer Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 361-372

  Xu, Bingzhong ^a   Yang, Rong ^a   Chang, Fei ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Xie, Guiqing ^a   Sokabe, Masahiro ^b   Chen, Ling ^a,b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

amyloid peptides (A ); Alzheimer's disease (AD); Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA); Neurogenesis; Neurosteroid; Pregnenolone sulfate (PREGS)

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE; PREGNENOLONE SULFATE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEURITES; NEUROGENESIS; PREGNENOLONE;

EID: 84860281357     PISSN: 15672050     EISSN: 18755828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156720512800107591     Document Type: Article

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