Is basic research providing answers if adjuvant anti-estrogen treatment of breast cancer can induce cognitive impairment?

Life Sciences

Volumn 93, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 581-588

  Buwalda, Bauke ^a   Schagen, Sanne B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal models; Aromatase inhibitors; Brain; Cognition; Estradiol receptors; Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs)

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; ANASTROZOLE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; EXEMESTANE; LETROZOLE; RALOXIFENE; TAMOXIFEN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR;

BASIC RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PLACE PREFERENCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SYNAPTOSOME; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BRAIN; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COGNITION DISORDERS; ESTRADIOL; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS;

EID: 84885172109     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: 18790631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2012.12.012     Document Type: Review

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