Modulatory role of androgenic and estrogenic neurosteroids in determining the direction of synaptic plasticity in the CA1 hippocampal region of male rats

Physiological Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Pettorossi, Vito Enrico ^a   Di Mauro, Michela ^a   Scarduzio, Mariangela ^a   Panichi, Roberto ^a   Tozzi, Alessandro ^a,b   Calabresi, Paolo ^a,b   Grassi, Silvarosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Androgen receptors; Estrogen receptors; Hippocampus; Long term depression; Longterm potentiation; Sex neurosteroids

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FLUTAMIDE; FULVESTRANT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HORMONAL REGULATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; RAT; STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 85008970144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phy2.185     Document Type: Article

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