Prepubertal castration causes the age-dependent changes in hippocampal long-term potentiation

Synapse

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 235-244

  Moradpour, Farshad ^a   Fathollahi, Yaghoub ^a   Naghdi, Nasser ^b   Hosseinmardi, Nargess ^c   Javan, Mohammad ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

CA1 neural network; Prepubertal castration; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRATUM PYRAMIDALE; STRATUM RADIATUM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84875509366     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.21636     Document Type: Article

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