Antagonism of picrotoxin-induced changes in dopamine and serotonin metabolism by allopregnanolone and midazolam

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 987-991

  Maciejak, Piotr ^a   Krzcik, Pawel ^b   Czlonkowska, Agnieszka I ^b   Szyndler, Janusz ^b   Bidziński, Andrzej ^a   Walkowiak, Jerzy ^a   Kostowski, Wojciech ^a,b   Plaznik, Adam ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Dopamine; Intracerebroventricular injections; Intraperitoneal injections; Mice; Midazolam; Picrotoxin; Seizures; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MIDAZOLAM MALEATE; NEUROTOXIN; PICROTOXIN; SEROTONIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMINO ACID; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; CONVULSANT AGENT; ELTANOLONE; MIDAZOLAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG POTENCY; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONIN METABOLISM; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL; CONVULSANTS; CONVULSIONS; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GABA MODULATORS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; MIDAZOLAM; PICROTOXIN; PREGNANOLONE; SEROTONIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; ANIMALS; SEIZURES;

EID: 0035991323     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(02)00811-0     Document Type: Article

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