GH improves spatial memory and reverses certain anabolic androgenic steroid-induced effects in intact rats

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-41

  Grönbladh, Alfhild ^a   Johansson, Jenny ^a   Nöstl, Anatole ^b   Nyberg, Fred ^a   Hallberg, Mathias ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS); Growth hormone (GH); Igf2; Insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF1); Morris water maze (MWM)

Indexed keywords

ARACHIS OIL; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; NANDROLONE DECANOATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C; ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NANDROLONE; NERVE PROTEIN; PERFORMANCE ENHANCING SUBSTANCE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEMORY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; WISTAR RAT;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NANDROLONE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING SUBSTANCES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SOMATOMEDINS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874427025     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/JOE-12-0315     Document Type: Article

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