Time-dependent changes in rat brain neuroactive steroid concentrations and gabaa receptor function after acute stress

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 166-172

  Barbaccia, Maria Luisa ^a   Roscetti, Gianna ^a   Trabucchi, Marco ^a   Mostallino, Maria Cristina ^b   Concas, Alessandra ^b   Purdy, Robert H ^c   Biggio, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; GABA receptors; Gonadal steroids; Neurosteroids; Stress

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; TERT BUTYLBICYCLOPHOSPHOROTHIOATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; STEROID METABOLISM; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; STEROIDS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030044368     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000126953     Document Type: Article

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