The beneficial effects of strength exercise on hippocampal cell proliferation and apoptotic signaling is impaired by anabolic androgenic steroids

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 50, Issue , 2014, Pages 106-117

  Novaes Gomes, Fabiano Guimarães ^a,b   Fernandes, Jansen ^a   Vannucci Campos, Diego ^a   Cassilhas, Ricardo Cardoso ^a   Viana, Gustavo Monteiro ^a   D'Almeida, Vânia ^a   de Moraes Rêgo, Marta Karavisch ^a   Buainain, Pedro Ivo ^a   Cavalheiro, Esper Abrão ^a   Arida, Ricardo Mario ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FAMINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anabolic androgenic steroids; Apoptosis; BDNF; Hippocampus; Neuroplasticity; Strength exercise

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NANDROLONE DECANOATE; NEUROTROPHIN; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; NANDROLONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EXERCISE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITTING; STRENGTH; STRENGTH EXERCISE; TISSUE PRESERVATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RESISTANCE TRAINING; WISTAR RAT;

ANABOLIC AGENTS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NANDROLONE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESISTANCE TRAINING;

EID: 84908459049     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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