Estrogen effects on cognitive and synaptic health over the lifecourse

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 785-807

  Hara, Yuko ^a,b   Waters, Elizabeth M ^a,b   McEwen, Bruce S ^a,b   Morrison, John H ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GESTAGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE;

AGING; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLIMACTERIUM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIENCEPHALON; DNA BINDING; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MENOPAUSE; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PRIMATE MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRIA TERMINALIS; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TELENCEPHALON; AGE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENOPAUSE; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84934784277     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: 15221210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00036.2014     Document Type: Article

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