Orchidectomy does not significantly affect spine synapse density in the CA3 hippocampal subfield in St. Kitts vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus)

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 559, Issue , 2014, Pages 189-192

  Mendell, Ari L ^a   Szigeti Buck, Klara ^b   MacLusky, Neil J ^a   Leranth, Csaba ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CA3; Hippocampus; Orchidectomy; St. Kitts vervet monkey; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CHLOROCEBUS SABAEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SYNAPSE DENSITY; STRATUM RADIATUM; TESTICULAR HORMONE SECRETION;

CA3; HIPPOCAMPUS; ORCHIDECTOMY; ST. KITTS VERVET MONKEY; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY;

ANIMALS; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DENDRITIC SPINES; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84890931417     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.10.061     Document Type: Article

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