Chronic cortisol exposure promotes the development of a GABAergic phenotype in the primate hippocampus

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 843-851

  McMillan, Pamela J ^a,b,c,e   Wilkinson, Charles W ^a,c   Greenup, Lynne ^a,b   Raskind, Murray A ^a,b,c   Peskind, Elaine R ^a,b,c   Leverenz, James B ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Education and Clinical Center   (United States)

^c GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Parkinson's Dis Res Educ C   (United States)

^e VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Calbindin; Dentate gyrus; GABAergic; Glucocorticoid; Glutamic acid decarboxylase

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALBINDIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CUSHING SYNDROME; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MACACA; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEIZURE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROCORTISONE; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MALE; PARVALBUMINS; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME;

ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS; MACACA; PRIMATES;

EID: 8644284109     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2004.02760.x     Document Type: Article

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