Acute and chronic glucocorticoid treatments regulate astrocyte-enriched mRNAs in multiple brain regions in vivo

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 AUG, 2013, Pages

  Carter, Bradley S ^a,b   Hamilton, David E ^b   Thompson, Robert C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Brain; Corticosterone; Glucocorticoids; Messenger; Mice; RNA

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE A2B RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL 25 HYDROXYLASE; CORTICOSTERONE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 2; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN 5; FOLATE HYDROLASE 1; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 7; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 9; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 4; NEUROMODULIN; PERIOD CIRCADIAN CLOCK 1; PROLINE DEHYDROGENASE 1; PROTEIN; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE KINASE 4; SULFOTRANSFERASE 1A1; SYNAPSIN II; THIOREDOXIN INTERACTING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT7A PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN REGION; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84893792740     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00139     Document Type: Article

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