Age increase of estrogen receptor-α (ERα) in cortical astrocytes impairs neurotrophic support in male and female rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2101-2113

  Arimoto, Jason M ^a   Wong, Angela ^a,b   Rozovsky, Irina ^a   Lin, Sharon W ^a   Morgan, Todd E ^a   Finch, Caleb E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLIMACTERIUM; DESENSITIZATION; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURITES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84878465169     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-2046     Document Type: Article

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