Increasing Hippocampal Estrogen Receptor Alpha Levels via Viral Vectors Increases MAP Kinase Activation and Enhances Memory in Aging Rats in the Absence of Ovarian Estrogens

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Witty, Christine F ^a   Foster, Thomas C ^b   Semple Rowland, Susan L ^b   Daniel, Jill M ^a,c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; VIRUS VECTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAZE TEST; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GENETIC VECTORS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; OVARIECTOMY; RATS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84871168240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051385     Document Type: Article

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