Sex and stress hormone influences on the expression and activity of brain-derived neurotrophic factor

Neuroscience

Volumn 239, Issue , 2013, Pages 295-303

  Carbone, D L ^a   Handa, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Estradiol; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR P75; SEX HORMONE; STRESS HORMONE; VITELLOGENIN;

BDNF GENE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC STRESS; DEPRESSION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRKB GENE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84876095076     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.10.073     Document Type: Review

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