The socially-isolated mouse: A model to study the putative role of allopregnanolone and 5α-dihydroprogesterone in psychiatric disorders

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 110-115

  Guidotti, A ^a   Dong, E ^a   Matsumoto, K ^b   Pinna, G ^a   Rasmusson, A M ^c   Costa, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

5 dihydroprogesterone (5 DH PROG); 5 reductase and 3 hydroxysteroidoxidoreductase (3 HSD); Allopregnanolone (3 ,5 TH PROG); Depression; Socially isolated mice

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 5ALPHA PREGNANE 3,20 DIONE; FLUOXETINE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROSTEROID; PHENOBARBITAL; SEROTONIN ANTAGONIST; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPRESSION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENOME; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

20-ALPHA-DIHYDROPROGESTERONE; ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; PREGNANOLONE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 0035663937     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(01)00129-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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