HORMONES AND GENDER | Female Sex Steroids and Neuronal Excitability

Encyclopedia of Basic Epilepsy Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 477-484

  Frye, C A ^a   Rhodes, M E ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Estrogen receptor; GABA receptor; NMDA receptor; Progesterone; Progestin receptor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85069289429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373961-2.00083-7     Document Type: Chapter

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