Steroid hormones affect limbic afterdischarge thresholds and kindling rates in adult female rats

Brain Research

Volumn 838, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 136-150

  Edwards, Heather E ^a   Burnham, W McIntyre ^b   Mendonca, Antonio ^b   Bowlby, Deborah A ^a   MacLusky, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Estradiol; Kindling; Progesterone; Threshold

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; AFTERDISCHARGE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; KINDLING; LIMBIC CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SEIZURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0345151831     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01619-4     Document Type: Article

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