The GABA(A) receptor antagonist picrotoxin attenuates most sleep changes induced by progesterone

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 213-219

  Lancel, Marike ^a   Faulhaber, Johannes ^a   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Rupprecht, Rainer ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

EEG spectral analysis; GABA(A) receptor; Neurosteroids; Rat; Sleep

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PICROTOXIN; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONVULSION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REM SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; MALE; PICROTOXIN; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SLEEP; SLEEP, REM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032948031     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050827     Document Type: Article

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