HORMONES AND GENDER | Hormones and Epilepsy

Encyclopedia of Basic Epilepsy Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 495-501

  Woolley, C S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Axonal bouton; Catamenial epilepsy; Electron microscopy; Electrophysiology; Estradiol; Glutamate; Hippocampus; Kainic acid; Menstrual cycle; Neuropeptide Y; Progesterone; Synapse; Amino butyric acid (GABA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929296593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373961-2.00217-4     Document Type: Chapter

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