De Novo Synthesized Estradiol Protects against Methylmercury-Induced Neurotoxicity in Cultured Rat Hippocampal Slices

BACKGROUND: Estrogen, a class of female sex steroids, is neuroprotective. Estrogen is synthesized in specific areas of the brain. There is a possibility that the de novo synthesized estrogen exerts protective effect in brain, although direct evidence for the neuroprotective function of brain-synthes...

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Autores principales: Yamazaki, Takeshi, Yamamoto, Megumi, Ishihara, Yasuhiro, Komatsu, Shota, Munetsuna, Eiji, Onizaki, Masahiro, Ishida, Atsuhiko, Kawato, Suguru, Mukuda, Takao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3566000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23405170
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055559

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