Effects of the active neurosteroid allotetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone on long-term potentiation in the rat hippocampus: Implications for depression

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1029-1034

  Dubrovsky, Bernardo ^a   Tatarinov Levin, Anna ^a   Harris, John ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active neurosteroid; Allotetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone; Depression; Long term potentiation; Neurosteroid; Steroid hormone

Indexed keywords

ALLOTETRAHYDRODEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; NEUROSTEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URETHAN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPIKE WAVE;

EID: 4544269892     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2004.06.001     Document Type: Article

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