Thyroid hormone's role in regulating brain glucose metabolism and potentially modulating hippocampal Cognitive processes

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 101-111

  Jahagirdar, V ^a   McNay, E C ^b  

^a EXCELSIOR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Glucose; Glut; Insulin; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; INSULIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MEMORY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COGNITION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GLUCOSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INSULIN; MEMORY; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 84863424178     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-012-9291-0     Document Type: Review

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