Sex-dependent behavioral effects of the neurosteroid allopregnanolone (3α,5α-THP) in neonatal and adult rats after postnatal stress

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 717-724

  Zimmerberg, Betty ^a   Rackow, Sharon H ^a   George Friedman, Karen P ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 ,5 THP; Allopreganolone; Grooming; Maternal separation; Neurosteroid; Sex; Stress; Ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROOMING; HABITUATION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL STRESS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GROOMING; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANOLONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 3A;

EID: 0032739863     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(99)00149-5     Document Type: Article

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