Glucocorticoids specifically enhance L-type calcium current amplitude and affect calcium channel subunit expression in the mouse hippocampus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-14

  Chameau, Pascal ^a,c   Qin, Yongjun ^a   Spijker, Sabine ^b   Smit, Guus ^b   Joëls, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL L TYPE; CONOTOXIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; NIFEDIPINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; CALCIUM CHANNELS, N-TYPE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33846425003     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00821.2006     Document Type: Article

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