Cognitive improvement by acute growth hormone is mediated by NMDA and AMPA receptors and MEK pathway

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-20

  Ramis, Margarita ^a   Sarubbo, Fiorella ^a   Sola, Jessica ^a   Aparicio, Sara ^a   Garau, Celia ^b   Miralles, Antonio ^a   Esteban, Susana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA; ERK; Growth hormone; NMDA; Object recognition; Radial maze

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

Α-AMINO-(4-AMINOPHENYL-THIO)-METHYLENE-2-(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)-BENZENE-ACETONITRILE; Α-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; Γ-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID TYPE A; 6,7-DINITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; AMPA; DIZOCILPINE; DNQX; ERK; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED KINASE; GABA(A); GH; GROWTH HORMONE; MAPK; MAPK/ERK KINASE; MEK; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MK801; N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; NMDA; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RADIAL MAZE; SL 327; WM; WORKING MEMORY;

AGE FACTORS; AMINOACETONITRILE; ANIMALS; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GROWTH HORMONE; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; QUINOXALINES; RATS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 84878358103     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2013.04.005     Document Type: Article

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