Estrogen Replacement Increases Spinophilin-immunoreactive Spine Number in the Prefrontal Cortex of Female Rhesus Monkeys

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-223

  Tang, Yong ^a   Janssen, William G M ^a   Hao, Jiandong ^a   Roberts, Jeffrey A ^b   McKay, Heather ^b   Lasley, Bill ^b   Allen, Patrick B ^c,d   Greengard, Paul ^c   Rapp, Peter R ^a   Kordower, Jeffrey H ^e   Hof, Patrick R ^a   Morrisonn, John H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dendritic spines; Hormone replacement; Macaque monkey; Plasticity; Steroids; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL CIPIONATE; ESTROGEN; SPINOPHILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA MULATTA; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OVARIECTOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 9144274929     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg121     Document Type: Article

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