Luis M Garcia-Segura

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1 Actions of estrogens on glial cells: Implications for neuroprotection. Biochim Biophys Acta 2009 1.46
2 Reduced metabolites mediate neuroprotective effects of progesterone in the adult rat hippocampus. The synthetic progestin medroxyprogesterone acetate (Provera) is not neuroprotective. J Neurobiol 2006 1.17
3 Interactions of estrogen and insulin-like growth factor-I in the brain: molecular mechanisms and functional implications. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2002 1.17
4 Aromatase expression by reactive astroglia is neuroprotective. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2003 1.09
5 Diabetes-induced myelin abnormalities are associated with an altered lipid pattern: protective effects of LXR activation. J Lipid Res 2011 1.08
6 Glia-neuron crosstalk in the neuroprotective mechanisms of sex steroid hormones. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 2005 1.07
7 Estrogen receptor alpha forms estrogen-dependent multimolecular complexes with insulin-like growth factor receptor and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase in the adult rat brain. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 2003 1.04
8 Testosterone decreases reactive astroglia and reactive microglia after brain injury in male rats: role of its metabolites, oestradiol and dihydrotestosterone. Eur J Neurosci 2007 1.04
9 Selective estrogen receptor modulators decrease reactive astrogliosis in the injured brain: effects of aging and prolonged depletion of ovarian hormones. Endocrinology 2009 1.04
10 Ro5-4864, a peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligand, reduces reactive gliosis and protects hippocampal hilar neurons from kainic acid excitotoxicity. J Neurosci Res 2005 1.03
11 Ligand for translocator protein reverses pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. J Neurosci 2013 1.02
12 Selective oestrogen receptor (ER) modulators reduce microglia reactivity in vivo after peripheral inflammation: potential role of microglial ERs. J Endocrinol 2008 0.98
13 Cross-talk between estrogen receptors and insulin-like growth factor-I receptor in the brain: cellular and molecular mechanisms. Front Neuroendocrinol 2006 0.98
14 Prenatal stress causes alterations in the morphology of microglia and the inflammatory response of the hippocampus of adult female mice. J Neuroinflammation 2012 0.97
15 Sex differences in the inflammatory response of primary astrocytes to lipopolysaccharide. Biol Sex Differ 2011 0.95
16 Aromatase distribution in the monkey temporal neocortex and hippocampus. Brain Res 2008 0.95
17 Sex hormones and brain aging. Exp Gerontol 2004 0.95
18 Neuroprotective actions of selective estrogen receptor modulators. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009 0.95
19 An antagonist of estrogen receptors blocks the induction of adult neurogenesis by insulin-like growth factor-I in the dentate gyrus of adult female rat. Eur J Neurosci 2003 0.94
20 Selective estrogen receptor modulators protect hippocampal neurons from kainic acid excitotoxicity: differences with the effect of estradiol. J Neurobiol 2004 0.93
21 Interaction of estrogen receptors with insulin-like growth factor-I and Wnt signaling in the nervous system. Steroids 2009 0.93
22 Selective estrogen receptor modulators as brain therapeutic agents. J Mol Endocrinol 2011 0.93
23 Aromatase, the enzyme responsible for estrogen biosynthesis, is expressed by human and rat glioblastomas. Neurosci Lett 2004 0.93
24 Neuroprotective actions of estradiol revisited. Trends Endocrinol Metab 2011 0.92
25 Progesterone and its derivatives dihydroprogesterone and tetrahydroprogesterone reduce myelin fiber morphological abnormalities and myelin fiber loss in the sciatic nerve of aged rats. Neurobiol Aging 2003 0.91
26 Neuroactive steroids prevent peripheral myelin alterations induced by diabetes. Neurosci Lett 2006 0.91
27 Sex differences, developmental changes, response to injury and cAMP regulation of the mRNA levels of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, cytochrome p450scc, and aromatase in the olivocerebellar system. J Neurobiol 2006 0.91
28 Growth hormone prevents neuronal loss in the aged rat hippocampus. Neurobiol Aging 2005 0.89
29 Neuroprotection by the steroids pregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone is mediated by the enzyme aromatase. J Neurobiol 2003 0.88
30 Neuroprotective and neurotoxic effects of estrogens. Brain Res 2003 0.88
31 Role of astroglia in the neuroplastic and neuroprotective actions of estradiol. Eur J Neurosci 2010 0.87
32 Aromatase expression in the normal and epileptic human hippocampus. Brain Res 2009 0.87
33 Extragonadal synthesis of estradiol is protective against kainic acid excitotoxic damage to the hippocampus. Neuroreport 2005 0.87
34 Prenatal stress increases the expression of proinflammatory cytokines and exacerbates the inflammatory response to LPS in the hippocampal formation of adult male mice. Brain Behav Immun 2012 0.87
35 Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein in the rat brain: cellular distribution, developmental regulation and overexpression after injury. Eur J Neurosci 2003 0.86
36 Long-term ovariectomy enhances anxiety and depressive-like behaviors in mice submitted to chronic unpredictable stress. Horm Behav 2010 0.86
37 Insulin-like growth factor-I gene delivery to astrocytes reduces their inflammatory response to lipopolysaccharide. J Neuroinflammation 2011 0.85
38 Age-related changes in neuroactive steroid levels in 3xTg-AD mice. Neurobiol Aging 2012 0.85
39 Role of estrogen receptor alpha in membrane-initiated signaling in neural cells: interaction with IGF-1 receptor. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2009 0.84
40 Sex-dependent long-term effects of adolescent exposure to THC and/or MDMA on neuroinflammation and serotoninergic and cannabinoid systems in rats. Br J Pharmacol 2014 0.84
41 Estradiol and soy extract increase the production of new cells in the dentate gyrus of old rats. Exp Gerontol 2005 0.83
42 Molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of neuritogenesis by estradiol: Recent advances. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2011 0.83
43 G protein-coupled estrogen receptor is required for the neuritogenic mechanism of 17β-estradiol in developing hippocampal neurons. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2013 0.82
44 Therapeutic approaches to peripheral neuropathy based on neuroactive steroids. Expert Rev Neurother 2006 0.82
45 Gonadal hormones and the control of reactive gliosis. Horm Behav 2012 0.81
46 Behavioral effects of estradiol therapy in ovariectomized rats depend on the age when the treatment is initiated. Exp Gerontol 2011 0.81
47 Pubertal maturation modifies the regulation of insulin-like growth factor-I receptor signaling by estradiol in the rat prefrontal cortex. Dev Neurobiol 2008 0.81
48 Effects of progesterone and its reduced metabolites, dihydroprogesterone and tetrahydroprogesterone, on the expression and phosphorylation of glycogen synthase kinase-3 and the microtubule-associated protein tau in the rat cerebellum. Dev Neurobiol 2007 0.81
49 Regulation of the phosphoinositide-3 kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling pathways by progesterone and its reduced metabolites in the rat brain. J Neurosci Res 2009 0.81
50 Neuroprotective effects of soy phytoestrogens in the rat brain. Gynecol Endocrinol 2006 0.80
51 Estradiol and testosterone regulate arginine-vasopressin expression in SH-SY5Y human female neuroblastoma cells through estrogen receptors-α and -β. Endocrinology 2013 0.80
52 Estrogen receptor ligands counteract cognitive deficits caused by androgen deprivation in male rats. Horm Behav 2011 0.80
53 Leptin accumulation in hypothalamic and dorsal raphe neurons is inversely correlated with brain serotonin content. Brain Res 2010 0.79
54 Sex-dimorphic effects of progesterone and its reduced metabolites on gene expression of myelin proteins by rat Schwann cells. J Peripher Nerv Syst 2006 0.79
55 Estradiol decreases cortical reactive astrogliosis after brain injury by a mechanism involving cannabinoid receptors. Cereb Cortex 2011 0.79
56 Estrogen receptor alpha is involved in the estrogenic regulation of arginine vasopressin immunoreactivity in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of ovariectomized rats. Neurosci Lett 2010 0.78
57 Antidepressive and anxiolytic activity of selective estrogen receptor modulators in ovariectomized mice submitted to chronic unpredictable stress. Behav Brain Res 2011 0.78
58 Prenatal stress induces long-term effects in cell turnover in the hippocampus-hypothalamus-pituitary axis in adult male rats. PLoS One 2011 0.78
59 Progesterone regulates the phosphorylation of protein phosphatases in the brain. J Neurosci Res 2010 0.78
60 The weight gain response to stress during adulthood is conditioned by both sex and prenatal stress exposure. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009 0.78
61 Selective transcriptional regulation of aromatase gene by vitamin D, dexamethasone, and mifepristone in human glioma cells. Endocrine 2008 0.78
62 Are gonadal steroid hormones involved in disorders of brain aging? Aging Cell 2003 0.77
63 An in vitro experimental model of neuroinflammation: the induction of interleukin-6 in murine astrocytes infected with Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus, and its inhibition by oestrogenic receptor modulators. Immunology 2011 0.76
64 Sex differences and effects of estrogenic compounds on the expression of inflammatory molecules by astrocytes exposed to the insecticide dimethoate. Neurotox Res 2013 0.76
65 Neuroprotective actions of the synthetic estrogen 17alpha-ethynylestradiol in the hippocampus. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2010 0.76
66 Estrogen and brain vulnerability. Neurotox Res 2002 0.76
67 Sub-chronic exposure to the insecticide dimethoate induces a proinflammatory status and enhances the neuroinflammatory response to bacterial lypopolysaccharide in the hippocampus and striatum of male mice. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2013 0.75
68 Sex differences in the injured brain. Horm Mol Biol Clin Investig 2011 0.75
69 Therapeutic implications of brain steroidogenesis. Horm Mol Biol Clin Investig 2010 0.75
70 Progesterone as a regulator of phosphorylation in the central nervous system. Horm Mol Biol Clin Investig 2010 0.75
71 Hormones and the brain. Horm Mol Biol Clin Investig 2011 0.75
72 Down-regulation of Bcl-2 in rat substantia nigra after focal cerebral ischemia. Neuroreport 2004 0.75