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Summary: One effect of estradiol on astrocytes is the mediation of neuronal sprouting. Astrocytes express glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in response to injury, but estradiol has been shown to repress GFAP expression. Ovariectomized female rats received 15 ng of 192-IgG-SAP (Cat. #IT-01) into the horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca, followed by long-term estrogen treatment. The results suggest that estradiol deprivation may exacerbate the effects of a cholinergic lesion, and administration of estradiol may aid the recovery of lesioned cholinergic neurons by blocking GFAP expression.
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