Estradiol regulates markers of synaptic plasticity in the hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus and amygdala of female rats

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 409-420

  Ferri, Sarah L ^a   Hildebrand, Peter F ^a   Way, Samantha E ^a   Flanagan Cato, Loretta M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA receptors; Anxiety; Lordosis; Neural plasticity; Ovarian hormones

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; AMPA RECEPTOR; COFILIN; ESTRADIOL; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR A1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR A2; PROGESTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 2; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; DENDRITE; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; METABOLISM; OVARIECTOMY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OVARIECTOMY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SYNAPSES; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84904470115     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2014.06.016     Document Type: Article

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