The neurosteroid dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) enhances hippocampal primed burst, but not long-term, potentiation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 204-208

  Diamond, David M ^a,b   Branch, Berrilyn J ^a   Fleshner, Monika ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

CA1; Learning; Long term potentiation (LTP); Memory; Neuronal plasticity; Neurosteroid; Rat

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030045509     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12233-8     Document Type: Article

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