Neuronal excitability in the periaqueductal grey matter during the estrous cycle in female Wistar rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 325-335

  Brack, K E ^a   Lovick, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CCKB receptors; estrous cycle; GABA; panic; periaqueductal grey; rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE; CHOLECYSTOKININ B RECEPTOR; CHOLECYSTOKININ B RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CHOLECYSTOKININ RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; ITRIGLUMIDE; PENTAGASTRIN; URETHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; DIESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IONTOPHORESIS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PREMENSTRUAL DYSPHORIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; RAT;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; BIOTIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEART RATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; PANIC DISORDER; PENTAGASTRIN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 33751514485     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.08.058     Document Type: Article

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