Rise in intracellular calcium via a nongenomic effect of allopregnanolone in fetal rat hypothalamic neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 130-136

  Dayanithi, Govindan ^a   Tapia Arancibia, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

allopregnanolone; calcium; Fura 2; GABA(A) receptor; hypothalamic neurons; neurosteroids; nongenomic effect

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030071639     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-01-00130.1996     Document Type: Article

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