Corticosteroids influence the action potential firing pattern of hippocampal subfield CA3 pyramidal cells

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 58-66

  Okuhara, Dayne Y ^a   Beck, Sheryl G ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal steroid receptors; Adrenal steroids; Electrophysiology; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADRENALECTOMY; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL MEMBRANE RESISTANCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0031985108     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054299     Document Type: Article

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