Role of brain allopregnanolone in the plasticity of γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptor in rat brain during pregnancy and after delivery

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 13284-13289

  Concas, A ^a   Mostallino, M C ^a   Porcu, P ^a   Follesa, P ^a   Barbaccia, M L ^b   Trabucchi, M ^b   Purdy, R H ^c   Grisenti, P ^d   Biggio, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Poli Industria Chimica SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BRAIN RECEPTOR; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; FINASTERIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROSTEROID; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN LEVEL; DELIVERY; FEMALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHLORIDES; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FINASTERIDE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MUSCIMOL; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PREGNANOLONE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032573169     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.22.13284     Document Type: Article

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