Glucocorticoids alter calcium conductances and calcium channel subunit expression in basolateral amygdala neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1083-1089

  Karst, Henk ^a   Nair, Suresh ^a   Velzing, Els ^a   Rumpff van Essen, Lisette ^a   Slagter, Eelco ^a,b   Shinnick Gallagher, Patricia ^b   Joels, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium currents; Corticosterone; Electrophysiology; Glucocorticoid receptors; RNA amplification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HORMONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENE TARGETING; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; TIME;

AMYGDALA; ANDROSTANOLS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, P-TYPE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS;

EID: 0036457088     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02172.x     Document Type: Article

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