Neurosteroids exhibit differential effects on mIPSCs recorded from normal and seizure prone rats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 2171-2181

  Schwabe, Kerstin ^b   Gavrilovici, Cezar ^a   McIntyre, Dan C ^a   Poulter, Michael O ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A ALPHA2 RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A ALPHA3 RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A ALPHA5 RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; NEUROSTEROID; TETRAHYDRODEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; MINIATURE INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC CURRENT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREGNANOLONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES;

EID: 23944497525     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01233.2004     Document Type: Article

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