Investigation of the anticonvulsive effect of acute immobilization stress in anxious Balb/cByJ mice using GABAA-related mechanistic probes

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 197, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 523-534

  Verleye, Marc ^a   Heulard, Isabelle ^a   Gillardin, Jean Marie ^a  

^a Service de Pharmacologie   (France)

Author keywords

Balb cByJ mice; Clonazepam; Clonic convulsions; Etifoxine; Finasteride; Immobilization stress; Neuroactive steroids; Progesterone; T butylbicyclophosphorothionate (TBPS)

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; CLONAZEPAM; ETHYLAMINE; ETIFOXINE; FINASTERIDE; FLUMAZENIL; KAINIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N SEC BUTYL 1 (2 CHLOROPHENYL) N METHYL 3 ISOQUINOLINECARBOXAMIDE; PICROTOXIN; PROGESTERONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; STRYCHNINE; TERT BUTYLBICYCLOPHOSPHOROTHIOATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLONIC SEIZURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID RELEASE;

ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CLONAZEPAM; CONVULSANTS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FINASTERIDE; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OXAZINES; PICROTOXIN; PREGNANOLONE; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEIZURES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 41849129283     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-007-1066-7     Document Type: Article

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