Testosterone has sublayer-specific effects on dendritic spine maturation mediated by BDNF and PSD-95 in pyramidal neurons in the hippocampus CA1 area

Brain Research

Volumn 1484, Issue , 2012, Pages 76-84

  Li, Meihua ^a   Masugi Tokita, Miwako ^a   Takanami, Keiko ^a   Yamada, Shunji ^a   Kawata, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

BDNF; CA1; Maturation; PSD 95; Spine morphology; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GONADECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STRATUM LACUNOSUM MOLECULARE; STRATUM RADIATUM; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; DENDRITIC SPINES; GUANYLATE KINASE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; TESTOSTERONE;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; MUS;

EID: 84867888709     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.09.028     Document Type: Article

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