Mild thyroid hormone insufficiency during development compromises activity-dependent neuroplasticity in the hippocampus of adult male rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 774-787

  Gilbert, M E ^a   Sanchez Huerta, K ^b   Wood, C ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 9; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; PROTEIN ARC; THYROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; ANTITHYROID AGENT; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; EGR1 PROTEIN, RAT; KLF9 PROTEIN, RAT; LIOTHYRONINE; MTOR PROTEIN, RAT; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CONDITIONING; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; EMBRYOLOGY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETICS; LONG EVANS RAT; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANIMALS; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THYROXINE; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84956895491     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2015-1643     Document Type: Article

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