Astrocytic estrogen receptors and impaired neurotrophic responses in a rat model of perimenopause

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Morgan, Todd E ^a   Finch, Caleb E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Estrogen receptors; Glial fibrillary acid protein; Neurotrophic; Perimenopause

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLIMACTERIUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTROPISM; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; RAT MODEL; SPATIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84946556163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00179     Document Type: Article

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