Association between reduced expression of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors and cognitive dysfunction in a rat model of traumatic brain injury due to lateral head acceleration

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 533, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-54

  Gao, Wei ^a   Xu, Hongyu ^a   Liang, Ming ^a   Huang, Jason H ^b   He, Xiaosheng ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid receptors (GRs); Hippocampus; Rats; Spatial memory; Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL HEAD ACCELERATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84871689084     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.020     Document Type: Article

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