Changes in properties and neurosteroid regulation of GABAergic synapses in the supraoptic nucleus during the mammalian female reproductive cycle

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 516, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 513-524

  Brussaard, A B ^a   Devay, P ^b   Ley Ting Vermeulen, J L ^a   Kits, Karel S ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BETA ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROSTEROID; OXYTOCIN; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INNERVATION; LACTATION; MAMMAL; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYCLE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; VELOCITY; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CURRENT DENSITY; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GABA MODULATORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LACTATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OXYTOCIN; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANOLONE; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0033561401     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.0513v.x     Document Type: Article

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