Sex dimorphism in seizure-controlling networks

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 72, Issue PB, 2014, Pages 144-152

  Giorgi, Fillippo Sean ^a   Galanopoulou, Aristea S ^b   Moshé, Solomon L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Saul R Korey Department of Neurology Laboratory of Developmental Epilepsy Montefiore Epilepsy Management Center Dominick P Purpura Department of Neuroscience   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Critical period; Dimorphism; Epilepsy; Estrogen receptor; GABA receptor; Hippocampus; Immature; KCC2; Locus Coeruleus; Rat; Seizures; Substantia nigra pars reticulata

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; DEOXYGLUCOSE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUROTHYL; MUSCIMOL; TESTOSTERONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR;

AGE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLONIC SEIZURE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCUS CERULEUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETICULAR FORMATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; ANIMAL; BRAIN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; SEIZURES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84909592149     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: 1095953X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2014.05.010     Document Type: Review

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