Neurosteroid effects at α4βδ GABAA receptors alter spatial learning and synaptic plasticity in CA1 hippocampus across the estrous cycle of the mouse

Brain Research

Volumn 1621, Issue , 2015, Pages 170-186

  Sabaliauskas, Nicole ^a,b   Shen, Hui ^a,c   Molla, Jonela ^a   Gong, Qi Hua ^a   Kuver, Aarti ^a   Aoki, Chiye ^b   Smith, Sheryl S ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allopregnanolone; Alpha4; Cognition; Delta; GABA A receptor; Ovarian hormones

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ESTRADIOL; NEUROSTEROID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ELTANOLONE; PREGNANE-20-ONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DIESTRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPATIAL LEARNING; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GENETICS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; DENDRITIC SPINES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PREGNANOLONE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SPATIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84941585402     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.12.026     Document Type: Article

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