With a little help from my friends: Androgens tap BDNF signaling pathways to alter neural circuits

Neuroscience

Volumn 239, Issue , 2013, Pages 124-138

  Ottem, E N ^a   Bailey, D J ^b   Jordan, C L ^c   Marc Breedlove, S ^c  

^a NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST NORBERT COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens; Dimorphic; HVC; Motoneurons; Neurotrophin

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; VINBLASTINE;

ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ANUS SPHINCTER; APOPTOSIS; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CASTRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; EXON; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MEDIATOR; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; VIRILIZATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84876094531     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.12.019     Document Type: Review

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