Effect of intrahippocampal dexamethasone on the levels of amino acid transmitters and neuronal excitability

Brain Research

Volumn 733, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 56-63

  Ábrahám, István ^a   Juhász, Gábor ^b   Kékesi, Katalin A ^b   Kovács, Krisztina J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

ACTH; Amino acid; Corticosterone; Dexamethasone; Hippocampus; Microdialysis; Population spike; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; CORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR AGONIST; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SERINE; TAURINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030576898     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00538-0     Document Type: Article

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