Gender Differences in Spatial Learning, Synaptic Activity, and Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus in Rats: Molecular Mechanisms

ACS Chemical Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1420-1427

  Monfort, Pilar ^a   Gomez Gimenez, Belen ^a   Llansola, Marta ^a   Felipo, Vicente ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

Author keywords

AMPA receptor; cGMP; cGMP dependent protein kinase; GluR1

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TETANUS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; FEMALE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSES; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84939806896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.5b00096     Document Type: Article

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