Bicuculline seizure susceptibility and nigral GABAA α1 receptor mRNA is altered in adult prenatally morphine-exposed females

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 348-363

  Schindler, C J ^a   Slamberova R ^a,b   Vathy, I ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Estrogen; GABAA receptor; Opiates; Prenatal drug exposure; Progesterone; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE PLUS PROGESTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SEIZURE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 12244296131     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(02)00027-6     Document Type: Article

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