Neurosteroids and brain function
By: edited by Giovanni Biggio, Robert H. Purdy.
Contributors: Biggio, Giovanni.; Purdy, Robert H.
Series: International review of neurobiology -- v. 46
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
Subjects: Steroids.; Neurobiology.; Brain -- physiology.; Steroids -- physiology.; Receptors, Steroid -- physiology.; Neuropharmacology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Neurosteroids: beginning of the story / Etienne E. Baulieu, P. Robel, and M. Schumacher; title: Biosynthesis of neurosteroids and regulation of their synthesis / Synthia H. Mellon and Hubert Vaudry; title: Neurosteroid 7-hydroxylation products in the brain / Robert morfin and Luboslav Stárka; title: Neurosteroid analysis / Ahmed A. Alomary, Robert L. Fitzgerald, and Robert H. Purdy; title: Role of the peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor in adrenal and brain steroidogenesis / Rachel C. Brown and Vassilios Papadopoulos; title: Formation and effects of neuroactive steroids in the central and peripheral nervous; title: system / Roberto Cosimo Melcangi ... [et al.]; title: Neurosteroid modulation of recombinant and synaptic GABAA receptors / Jeremy J. Lambert ... [et al.]; title: GABAA-receptor plasticity during long-term exposure to and withdrawal from progesterone / Giovanni Biggio ... [et al.]; title: Stress and neuroactive steroids / Maria Luisa Barbaccia ... [et al.]; title: Neurosteroids in learning and memory processes / Monique Vallée ... [et al.]; title: Neurosteroids and behavior / Sharon R. Engel and Kathleen A. Grant; title: Ethanol and neurosteroid interactions in the brain / A. Leslie Morrow ... [et al.]; title: Preclinical development of neurosteroids as neuroprotective agents for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases / Paul A. Lapchak and Dalia M. Araujo; title: Clinical implications of circulating neurosteroids / Andrea R. Genazzani ... [et al.]; title: Neuroactive steroids and central nervous system disorders / Mingde Wang ... [et al.]; title: Neuroactive steroids in neuropsychopharmacology / Rainer Rupprecht and Florian Holsboer; title: Current perspectives on the role of neurosteroids in PMS and depression / Lisa D. Griffin, Susan C. Conrad, and Synthia H. Mellon.