Living or dying in three quarter time: Neonatal orchestration of hippocampal cell death pathways by androgens and excitatory GABA

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-6

  Foradori, C D ^a   Handa, R J ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell death; Female; Hippocampus; Male; Rat; 2 GABA subunit

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN; BUMETANIDE; MUSCIMOL; OXYTOCIN; SODIUM POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DEATH; CELL MATURATION; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 49349106759     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.04.035     Document Type: Note

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