The role of ovarian hormone-derived neurosteroids on the regulation of GABAA receptors in affective disorders

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 231, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 3333-3342

  MacKenzie, Georgina ^a   Maguire, Jamie ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Estrous cycle; GABA receptors; Neurosteroids; Ovarian hormones; Postpartum; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; NEUROSTEROID; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; SEX HORMONE;

BEHAVIOR CONTROL; DEPRESSION; ESTRUS CYCLE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; FEMALE; METABOLISM; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OVARY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PUBERTY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 84906935862     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3423-z     Document Type: Review

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