New therapeutic approaches for epilepsies, focusing on reorganization of the GABAA receptor subunits by neurosteroids

Epilepsia

Volumn 51, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2010, Pages 131-134

  Murashima, Yoshiya L ^a   Yoshii, Mitsunobu ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; EL mouse; Epileptogenesis; GABAA subunits; Neurosteroid

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 3ALPHA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA4; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR GAMMA2; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEIZURE; UPREGULATION;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PREGNANOLONE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE;

EID: 77954483265     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2010.02627.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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