Corticosterone-induced decrease of inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in rat hippocampal pyramidal neurons in vitro depends on cytosolic factors

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 83-86

  Teschemacher, A ^a,b   Zeise, M L ^a,c   Zieglgansberger W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Hippocampus; Intracellular recording; Slice preparation; Synaptic inhibition; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REGIONAL PERFUSION;

EID: 0030572679     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12930-X     Document Type: Article

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