Stop signs in hippocampal insulin signaling: The role of insulin resistance in structural, functional and behavioral deficits

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue , 2016, Pages 47-54

  Fadel, Jim R ^a   Reagan, Lawrence P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WJB Dorn VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR; INSULIN RECEPTOR SUBSTRATE 1;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENE TRANSFER; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID PEROXIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84951965791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23521546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.12.004     Document Type: Review

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