Gender differences in brain Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor (PBR) expression and seizures produced by heptachlor during development

Proceedings of the Western Pharmacology Society

Volumn 51, Issue , 2008, Pages 18-22

  Garcia, Eric F ^a   Woolley, Dorothy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; HEPTACHLOR; NEUROSTEROID; PERIPHERAL BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BZRP PROTEIN, RAT; CARRIER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; AGING; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; HEPTACHLOR; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SEIZURES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 68249137287     PISSN: 00838969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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