Brain neurosteroids in gender-related aggression induced by social isolation

Critical Reviews in Neurobiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 75-82

  Pinna, Graziano ^a,b   Agis Balboa, Roberta C ^a   Doueiri, Mohemed Salim ^a   Guidotti, Alessandro ^a   Costa, Erminio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

5 reductase; Allopregnanolone; GABA A receptors; Gender related aggression; L methionine; Ovariectomy; Social isolation; Testosterone; Valproic acid

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANABOLIC AGENT; FLUOXETINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; NEUROSTEROID; REELIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ACETYLATION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VIOLENCE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GABA AGENTS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; METHIONINE; MICE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PREGNANOLONE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STEROIDS; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 9744256979     PISSN: 08920915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevNeurobiol.v16.i12.80     Document Type: Review

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