Stress-induced plasticity of GABAergic inhibition

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Maguire, Jamie ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; GABAA receptors; GABAAR; KCC2; Neurosteroids; Stress; THDOC

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; BICUCULLINE; CHLORIDE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; DIAZEPAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; KAINIC ACID; MUSCIMOL; NEUROSTEROID; PICROTOXIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ADRENALECTOMY; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; CHRONIC STRESS; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; STRESS; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

EID: 84902159321     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00157     Document Type: Review

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