Progesterone and allopregnanolone exacerbate hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in immature rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 214-220

  Tsuji, Masahiro ^a   Taguchi, Akihiko ^a   Ohshima, Makiko ^a   Kasahara, Yukiko ^a   Ikeda, Tomoaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; GABA; Hypoxic ischemic brain injury; Immature rat; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMATURITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; THALAMUS; WEIGHT CHANGE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BICUCULLINE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA-A RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; PREGNANOLONE; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856225755     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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