Psychomotor and rewarding properties of the neurosteroids dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate and androsterone: Effects on monoamine and steroid metabolism

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-79

  Zajda, Malgorzata Elzbieta ^a,b   Krzascik, Pawel ^a   Hill, Martin ^c   Majewska, Maria Dorota ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Androsterone; Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate; Locomotion; Monoamines; Neurosteroids; Reward

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTERONE; BIOGENIC AMINE; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLAMINE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PREGNENOLONE; SEROTONIN; STEROID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; METABOLISM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT; REWARD; WISTAR RAT;

ANDROSTERONE; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BIOGENIC AMINES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; DOPAMINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREGNENOLONE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REWARD; SEROTONIN; STEROIDS;

EID: 84859980377     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: 16890035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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