Progesterone and allopregnanolone improves stroke outcome in male mice via distinct mechanisms but neither promotes neurogenesis

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 32-37

  Lee, Rona J ^a   Kim, Joon Kyung ^a   Chao, Diana ^a   Kuo, Lisa ^a   Mally, Adheip ^a   McClean, Megan E ^a   Pemberton, Heather E ^a   Wilmington, Andrew R ^a   Wong, Jennifer ^a   Murphy, Sean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

allopregnanolone; intracellular progesterone receptor; neurogenesis; progesterone; stroke

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; DOUBLECORTIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR A; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR B; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ELTANOLONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MIGRATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; TISSUE PRESERVATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATHOLOGY; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGENESIS; PREGNANOLONE; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84923574363     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnc.12990     Document Type: Article

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