Neurosteroids and GABAA receptor interactions: a focus on stress
Since the pioneering discovery of the rapid CNS depressant actions of steroids by the father of stress, Hans Seyle 70 years ago, brain-derived neurosteroids have emerged as powerful endogenous modulators of neuronal excitability. The majority of the intervening research has focused on a class of nat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-12-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2011.00131/full |