Hippocampal cell responses in mice with a targeted glucocorticoid receptor gene disruption

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 6766-6774

  Hesen, Wouter ^a   Karst, Henk ^a,b   Meijer, Onno ^b   Cole, Tim J ^c   Schmid, Wolfgang ^c   De Kloet, E Ronald ^b   Schütz, Gunther ^c   Joëls, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

calcium currents; carbachol; electrophysiology; hexokinase; quantitative enzyme histochemistry; serotonin

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HEXOKINASE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DISORDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTOR OCCUPANCY;

EID: 0029915492     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-21-06766.1996     Document Type: Article

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