Contribution of estrogen receptor subtypes, ERα, ERβ, and GPER1 in rapid estradiol-mediated enhancement of hippocampal synaptic transmission in mice

Hippocampus

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1556-1566

  Kumar, Ashok ^a   Bean, Linda A ^a   Rani, Asha ^a   Jackson, Travis ^b   Foster, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ERK; Estradiol; Estrogen; Estrogen receptor alpha and beta; G1; G15; GPER1; GPR30; Hippocampus; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

1,3,5 TRIS(4 HYDROXYPHENYL) 4 PROPYLPYRAZOLE; DIARYLPROPIONITRILE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 30; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; 1,3,5-TRIS(4-HYDROXYPHENYL)-4-PROPYL-1H-PYRAZOLE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GPR30 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NITRILE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; PHENOLS; PROPIONATES; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PYRAZOLES; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84942150900     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22475     Document Type: Article

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