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Brief but chronic increase in allopregnanolone cause accelerated AD pathology differently in two mouse models.
Current Alzheimer research - 1 Jan 2013
Bengtsson Sara K, Johansson Maja, Backstrom Torbjorn, Nitsch Roger M, Wang Mingde
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Previously, we have shown that chronic treatment with allopregnanolone (ALLO) for three months impaired learning function in the Swe/PS1 mouse model. ALLO is a neurosteroid, produced in the CNS and a GABAA receptor agonist. ALLO modulates the general inhibitory system in the CNS by enhancing the effect of GABA. Chronic treatment with other GABAA receptor active compounds, such as benzodiazepines, ethanol and...
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