Hippocampal estradiol synthesis and its significance for hippocampal synaptic stability in male and female animals

Neuroscience

Volumn 274, Issue , 2014, Pages 24-32

  Vierk, R ^a   Brandt, N ^a   Rune, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aromatase; Estrogen; Sexual dimorphism; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; COFILIN; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; LETROZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AMNESIA; BREAST CANCER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DENDRITIC SPINE; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT STATURE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COGNITION; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; COGNITION; DENDRITIC SPINES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; SEX FACTORS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84902011261     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.05.003     Document Type: Review

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