Clinically relevant hormone treatments fail to induce spinogenesis in prefrontal cortex of aged female rhesus monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 11700-11705

  Ohm, Daniel T ^a   Bloss, Erik B ^a   Janssen, William G ^a   Dietz, Karen C ^a   Wadsworth, Shannon ^a   Lou, Wendy ^c   Gee, Nancy A ^d   Lasley, Bill L ^d   Rapp, Peter R ^e   Morrison Dr , John H ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Care ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENDRITIC SPINE DENSITY; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; MACACA MULATTA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE MORPHOLOGY; SPINOGENESIS; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 84865254665     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1881-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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