Testosterone depletion in adult male rats increases mossy fiber transmission, LTP, and sprouting in area CA3 of hippocampus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2338-2355

  Skucas, Vanessa A ^a   Duffy, Aine M ^a   Harte Hargrove, Lauren C ^a   Magagna Poveda, Alejandra ^b   Radman, Thomas ^c   Chakraborty, Goutam ^a   Schroeder, Charles E ^a,d   Maclusky, Neil J ^e   Scharfman, Helen E ^a,f  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c BrainScope Inc   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANEDIOL; ANDROSTANOLONE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DYNORPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GONADECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL MOSSY FIBER; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; UPREGULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84873319955     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3857-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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