β-Estradiol unmasks metabotropic receptor-mediated metaplasticity of NMDA receptor transmission in the female rat dentate gyrus

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1845-1854

  Nebieridze, Nino ^a,b   Zhang, Xiao lei ^a   Chachua, Tamar ^a,b   Velíšek, Libor ^a,b   Stanton, Patric K ^a   Velíšková, Jana ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Dentate gyrus; Female; LTP; Metabotropic glutamate receptors; NMDA receptors; NR2B subunit

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; OIL; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SRC-FAMILY KINASES;

EID: 84866328961     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.03.023     Document Type: Article

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