Corticosteroids enhance convulsion susceptibility via central mineralocorticoid receptors.

doi:10.1016/0306-4530(95)00016-x

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Corticosteroids enhance convulsion susceptibility via central mineralocorticoid receptors.

Psychoneuroendocrinology - 1 Jan 1995

Roberts A J, Keith L D

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Recently, interest in the roles of central nervous system mineralocorticoid receptors (MR) and glucocorticoid receptors (GR) has increased. In vitro results have implicated MR in the enhancing effects of corticosteroids and GR in the suppressing effects of corticosteroids on hippocampal excitabil...

Topics

Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
Animals
Brain
Circadian Rhythm
Genotype
Hippocampus
Limbic System
Mice
Mice, Inbred Strains
Receptors, Glucocorticoid
Receptors, Mineralocorticoid
Seizures
Species Specificity

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