Progesterone has rapid and membrane effects in the facilitation of female mouse sexual behavior. Prenatal stress suppresses rat pup ultrasonic vocalization and myocolonic twitching in response to separation. Effects of chronic benzodiazepine exposure on stress-induced neuroactive steroid levels. Progesterone in conjunction with estradiol has neuroprotective effects in an animal model of neurodegeneration. Perforant path stimulation produces seizures, loss of hippocampal neurons, and a deficit in spatial mapping in rats which is reduced by prior MK-801.
Androgens are neuroprotective in the dentate gyrus of adrenalectomized female rats.
Intravenous progesterone elicits a more rapid induction of lordosis in rats than does SKF38393. Return to the Top of the Current Page. Home Page Psych Dept.