The neurosteroid THDOC differentially affects spatial behavior and anesthesia in Slow and Fast kindling rat strains

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 283-292

  Schwabe, K ^a   McIntyre, D C ^b   Poulter, M O ^b,c  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; GABAA receptor; Learning and memory; Morris water maze; Seizure prone and seizure resistant rats

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; NEUROSTEROID; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TETRAHYDRODEOXYCORTICOSTERONE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; KINDLING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; DESOXYCORTICOSTERONE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GABA MODULATORS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33847341982     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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