Progesterone Exerts a Neuromodulatory Effect on Turning Behavior of Hemiparkinsonian Male Rats: Expression of 3α-Hydroxysteroid Oxidoreductase and Allopregnanolone as Suggestive of GABAA Receptors Involvement

There is a growing amount of evidence for a neuroprotective role of progesterone and its neuroactive metabolite, allopregnanolone, in animal models of neurodegenerative diseases. By using a model of hemiparkinsonism in male rats, injection of the neurotoxic 6-OHDA in left striatum, we studied proges...

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Main Authors: Roberto Yunes, Sebastián Casas, Eliana Gaglio, Ricardo Cabrera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Parkinson's Disease
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/431690