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picrotoxin and pregnanolone

picrotoxin has been researched along with pregnanolone in 46 studies

Research

Studies (46)

TimeframeStudies, this research(%)All Research%
pre-19901 (2.17)18.7374
1990's18 (39.13)18.2507
2000's21 (45.65)29.6817
2010's6 (13.04)24.3611
2020's0 (0.00)2.80

Authors

AuthorsStudies
Brann, DW; Kolbeck, RC; Mahesh, VB; Putnam, CD1
Brann, DW; Mahesh, VB; Putnam, CD1
Kirkness, EF; Turner, AJ1
Costa, AM; ffrench-Mullen, JM; Smith, SS; Spence, KT1
Bitran, D; McLeod, M; Shiekh, M1
Brinton, RD1
Bähring, R; Grantyn, R; Martelli, EA; Standhardt, H1
Li, SY; Pelletier, G; Vincens, M1
Dartois, E; Fillion, G; Haour, F; Marquette, C; Moyse, E; Popelier, M; Vincens, M1
André, M; Arancibia, S; Belmar, J; Tapia-Arancibia, L1
Dayanithi, G; Tapia-Arancibia, L1
Chen, SW; Davies, MF; Loew, GH; Rodriguez, L1
Davies, PA; Hales, TG; Hanna, MC; Kirkness, EF1
Bhave, SV; Hoffmann, E; Hoffmann, PL; Olsen, RW; Tabakoff, B; Tobin, AJ; Tyndale, RF1
Campos, MG; Hernández, R; Montaño, LM; Perusquía, M; Villalón, CM1
Bäckström, T; Johansson, S; Landgren, S; Wang, MD1
Hirst, JJ; Nicol, MB; Walker, D1
Fiszer de Plazas, S; Mitridate de Novara, AM; Rodríguez Gil, DJ; Viapiano, MS1
Bitran, D; Dugan, M; Ellis, R; Foley, M; Renda, P1
Beart, PM; Crossley, KJ; Hirst, JJ; Walker, DW1
Audette, D; Bitran, D; Foley, M; Frye, CA; Leslie, N1
Bidziński, A; Członkowska, AI; Krzaścik, P; Płaźnik, A; Siemiatkowski, M; Sienkiewicz-Jarosz, H; Szyndler, J1
Jaako, K; Kaasik, A; Kalda, A; Zharkovsky, A1
Findlay, GS; Harris, RA; Harrison, NL; Ueno, S1
Bidziński, A; Członkowska, AI; Krzaścik, P; Maciejak, P; Płaźnik, A; Siemiatkowski, M; Sienkiewicz-Jarosz, H; Szyndler, J1
Bidziński, A; Członkowska, AI; Kostowski, W; Krzaścik, P; Maciejak, P; Plaznik, A; Szyndler, J; Walkowiak, J1
Altobelli, D; Cannizzaro, C; Martire, M; Maurizi, S; Preziosi, P1
Dillon, GH; Huang, RQ1
Fjalland, B; Hansen, SL; Jackson, MB1
Matsumoto, K; Murakami, Y; Nomura, H; Takahata, H; Taki, K; Watanabe, H1
Calvo, DJ; Goutman, JD1
Frye, CA; Petralia, SM1
Izumi, Y; Murayama, K; Zorumski, CF1
Bernal-Morales, B; Contreras, CM; Gutièrrez-Garcìa, AG; Rodrìguez-Landa, JF; Saavedra, M1
Marx, CE; Moore, SD; Morrow, AL; Wang, C; Wilson, WA1
Pericić, D; Strac, DS; Vlainić, J1
Furukawa, K; Kita, A1
Gillardin, JM; Heulard, I; Verleye, M1
Brinton, RD; Wang, JM1
Kumar, A; Singh, A1
Arora, SK; Chakrabarti, A; Hota, D; Khanduja, KL; Prakash, A; Singh, S1
Akram, A; Gibson, CL; Grubb, BD; Radley, E1
Cao, Z; Hammock, BD; Lein, PJ; McCoy, M; Pessah, IN; Rogawski, MA1
Chesnoy-Marchais, D1
Aitta-Aho, T; den Hollander, B; Korpi, ER; Manner, AK; Uusi-Oukari, M; Vashchinkina, E; Vekovischeva, O1
Halbhuber, L; Kilb, W; Lombardi, A; Luhmann, HJ; Okabe, A; Sharopov, S; Uehara, R; Winkler, P1

Other Studies

46 other study(ies) available for picrotoxin and pregnanolone

ArticleYear
Inhibition of uterine contractility by progesterone and progesterone metabolites: mediation by progesterone and gamma amino butyric acidA receptor systems.
    Biology of reproduction, 1991, Volume: 45, Issue:2

    Topics: 5-alpha-Dihydroprogesterone; Animals; Depression, Chemical; Diestrus; Drug Interactions; Female; GABA-A Receptor Antagonists; Mifepristone; Picrotoxin; Pregnanediones; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Rats; Receptors, GABA-A; Receptors, Progesterone; Uterine Contraction

1991
Gamma-aminobutyric acidA receptors mediate 3 alpha-hydroxy-5 alpha-pregnan-20-one-induced gonadotropin secretion.
    Endocrinology, 1990, Volume: 126, Issue:4

    Topics: Animals; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Female; Follicle Stimulating Hormone; Gonadotropins; Luteinizing Hormone; Mifepristone; Picrotoxin; Pregnanes; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Inbred Strains; Receptors, GABA-A

1990
The stimulatory effects of secobarbital and pregnanolone on the GABAA receptor can be blocked selectively.
    European journal of pharmacology, 1988, Jun-10, Volume: 150, Issue:3

    Topics: Animals; Anthelmintics; Cerebral Cortex; In Vitro Techniques; Ivermectin; Muscimol; Phenobarbital; Picrotoxin; Pregnanes; Pregnanolone; Radioligand Assay; Receptors, GABA-A; Secobarbital; Sesterterpenes; Swine; Synaptic Membranes

1988
Withdrawal from the endogenous steroid progesterone results in GABAA currents insensitive to benzodiazepine modulation in rat CA1 hippocampus.
    Journal of neurophysiology, 1995, Volume: 74, Issue:1

    Topics: Animals; Benzodiazepines; Brain Chemistry; Chloride Channels; Electrophysiology; Female; GABA Antagonists; GABA Modulators; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Hippocampus; Ion Channel Gating; Lorazepam; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Rats; Receptors, GABA-A; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome

1995
Anxiolytic effect of progesterone is mediated by the neurosteroid allopregnanolone at brain GABAA receptors.
    Journal of neuroendocrinology, 1995, Volume: 7, Issue:3

    Topics: Analysis of Variance; Animals; Anti-Anxiety Agents; Azasteroids; Brain; Cholestenone 5 alpha-Reductase; Dihydrotestosterone; Estrus; Female; Mifepristone; Ovariectomy; Ovary; Oxidoreductases; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Rats; Receptors, GABA-A

1995
The neurosteroid 3 alpha-hydroxy-5 alpha-pregnan-20-one induces cytoarchitectural regression in cultured fetal hippocampal neurons.
    The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 1994, Volume: 14, Issue:5 Pt 1

    Topics: Analysis of Variance; Animals; Anti-Anxiety Agents; Cell Death; Cell Division; Cell Survival; Cells, Cultured; Chlorides; Estradiol; Fetus; Hippocampus; Isomerism; Kinetics; Neurites; Neurons; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Rats; Time Factors

1994
GABA-activated chloride currents of postnatal mouse retinal ganglion cells are blocked by acetylcholine and acetylcarnitine: how specific are ion channels in immature neurons?
    The European journal of neuroscience, 1994, Jul-01, Volume: 6, Issue:7

    Topics: Acetylcarnitine; Acetylcholine; Action Potentials; Animals; Bicuculline; Chloride Channels; Clonazepam; GABA Antagonists; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Glycine; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Neurons; Patch-Clamp Techniques; Pentobarbital; Picrotoxin; Potassium Chloride; Pregnanolone; Quinoxalines; Retina; Retinal Ganglion Cells; Strychnine; Substrate Specificity; Tetrodotoxin; Zinc

1994
Inhibitory effect of 5 beta-pregnan-3 alpha-o1-20-one on gonadotropin-releasing hormone gene expression in the male rat.
    European journal of pharmacology, 1994, Aug-01, Volume: 260, Issue:2-3

    Topics: Animals; Autoradiography; Gene Expression Regulation; Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone; Hypothalamus; In Situ Hybridization; Injections, Intraperitoneal; Male; Muscimol; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, GABA; RNA, Messenger

1994
Autoradiographic study of neurosteroid binding sites labelled with [35S]-TBPS in brain of different species.
    Brain research bulletin, 1993, Volume: 32, Issue:3

    Topics: Animals; Autoradiography; Brain; Bridged Bicyclo Compounds; Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic; Cerebral Cortex; Convulsants; Female; Guinea Pigs; Male; Mesencephalon; Mice; Mice, Inbred C3H; Organ Specificity; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Receptors, Steroid; Species Specificity; Sulfur Radioisotopes

1993
Neuroactive steroids modulate GABA inhibition of hypothalamic somatostatin release.
    Neuroreport, 1995, Oct-02, Volume: 6, Issue:14

    Topics: Animals; Bicuculline; Cells, Cultured; Desoxycorticosterone; Drug Synergism; GABA Antagonists; GABA Modulators; Hypothalamus; Neurons; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Somatostatin

1995
Rise in intracellular calcium via a nongenomic effect of allopregnanolone in fetal rat hypothalamic neurons.
    The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 1996, Volume: 16, Issue:1

    Topics: Animals; Bicuculline; Calcium; Cell Membrane; Electrophysiology; Fetus; GABA Modulators; Hypothalamus; Neurons; Pertussis Toxin; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Sensitivity and Specificity; Virulence Factors, Bordetella

1996
The hyperphagic effect of 3 alpha-hydroxylated pregnane steroids in male rats.
    Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 1996, Volume: 53, Issue:4

    Topics: Animals; Anxiety; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Eating; Feeding Behavior; Flumazenil; GABA Antagonists; GABA Modulators; GABA-A Receptor Antagonists; Male; Picrotoxin; Pregnanes; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley

1996
Insensitivity to anaesthetic agents conferred by a class of GABA(A) receptor subunit.
    Nature, 1997, Feb-27, Volume: 385, Issue:6619

    Topics: Amino Acid Sequence; Anesthetics, Intravenous; Animals; Bicuculline; Brain; Cell Line; Consensus Sequence; DNA, Complementary; Flumazenil; Flunitrazepam; GABA Agents; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Humans; Molecular Sequence Data; Muscimol; Pentobarbital; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Propofol; Rats; Receptors, GABA-A; Recombinant Proteins; RNA, Messenger; Transfection

1997
Pentobarbital decreases the gamma-aminobutyric acidA receptor subunit gamma-2 long/short mRNA ratio by a mechanism distinct from receptor occupation.
    The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, 1997, Volume: 283, Issue:1

    Topics: Animals; Ethanol; GABA Modulators; Hexobarbital; Pentobarbital; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, GABA-A; RNA Splicing; RNA, Messenger

1997
Inhibitory effect of sex steroids on guinea-pig airway smooth muscle contractions.
    Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part C, Pharmacology, toxicology & endocrinology, 1997, Volume: 118, Issue:1

    Topics: Animals; Bicuculline; Calcium; GABA Antagonists; GABA-A Receptor Antagonists; Guinea Pigs; Male; Membrane Potentials; Muscle Contraction; Muscle, Smooth; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Trachea

1997
Interaction between 3 alpha-hydroxy-5 alpha-pregnan-20-one and carbachol in the control of neuronal excitability in hippocampal slices of female rats in defined phases of the oestrus.
    Acta physiologica Scandinavica, 1998, Volume: 162, Issue:1

    Topics: Action Potentials; Animals; Atropine; Carbachol; Drug Synergism; Estradiol; Estrus; Female; GABA Antagonists; GABA Modulators; Hippocampus; Muscarinic Agonists; Muscarinic Antagonists; Neurons; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, GABA-A

1998
Effects of pregnanolone on behavioural parameters and the responses to GABA(A) receptor antagonists in the late gestation fetal sheep.
    Neuropharmacology, 1999, Volume: 38, Issue:1

    Topics: Animals; Bicuculline; Electroencephalography; Electromyography; Electrooculography; Embryonic and Fetal Development; Female; GABA Antagonists; Gestational Age; Picrotoxin; Pregnancy; Pregnanolone; Receptors, GABA-A; Respiration; Sheep

1999
Synaptic membrane freezing affects modulatory sites in avian central nervous system GABA(A) receptor.
    Neurochemical research, 1999, Volume: 24, Issue:11

    Topics: Animals; Binding Sites; Chickens; Drug Synergism; Freezing; GABA Modulators; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Hypnotics and Sedatives; Pentobarbital; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Receptors, GABA-A; Sesterterpenes; Synaptic Membranes; Tectum Mesencephali; Tritium

1999
Anxiolytic effects of the neuroactive steroid pregnanolone (3 alpha-OH-5 beta-pregnan-20-one) after microinjection in the dorsal hippocampus and lateral septum.
    Brain research, 1999, Dec-11, Volume: 850, Issue:1-2

    Topics: Animals; Anti-Anxiety Agents; Behavior, Animal; Chloride Channels; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Electroshock; Flumazenil; GABA Modulators; GABA-A Receptor Antagonists; Hippocampus; Isoquinolines; Male; Microinjections; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Long-Evans; Receptors, GABA-A; Septum of Brain

1999
Characterisation of GABA(A) receptors in fetal, neonatal and adult ovine brain: region and age related changes and the effects of allopregnanolone.
    Neuropharmacology, 2000, Jul-10, Volume: 39, Issue:9

    Topics: Aging; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Binding, Competitive; Brain; Brain Stem; Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Female; Fetus; Frontal Lobe; GABA Antagonists; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Hypothalamus; Male; Picrotoxin; Pregnancy; Pregnanolone; Receptors, GABA-A; Sheep; Sulfur Radioisotopes

2000
Activation of peripheral mitochondrial benzodiazepine receptors in the hippocampus stimulates allopregnanolone synthesis and produces anxiolytic-like effects in the rat.
    Psychopharmacology, 2000, Volume: 151, Issue:1

    Topics: Analysis of Variance; Animals; Anxiety; GABA Antagonists; Hippocampus; Indoleacetic Acids; Isoquinolines; Male; Mitochondria; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Long-Evans; Receptors, GABA-A

2000
The effects of neurosteroids on picrotoxin-, bicuculline- and NMDA-induced seizures, and a hypnotic effect of ethanol.
    Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 2000, Volume: 67, Issue:2

    Topics: Animals; Bicuculline; Central Nervous System Depressants; Convulsants; Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate; Desoxycorticosterone; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Ethanol; Injections, Intraperitoneal; Injections, Intraventricular; Male; Mice; N-Methylaspartate; Picrotoxin; Pregnanediones; Pregnanolone; Pregnenolone; Progesterone; Reflex; Seizures; Sleep; Steroids

2000
Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate prevents oxygen-glucose deprivation-induced injury in cerebellar granule cell culture.
    Neuroscience, 2001, Volume: 102, Issue:2

    Topics: 1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridinium; Animals; Apoptosis; Cell Count; Cell Hypoxia; Cell Survival; Cells, Cultured; Cerebellum; Colchicine; Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate; Dizocilpine Maleate; GABA Modulators; Glucose; Glutamic Acid; Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain; Neuroprotective Agents; Pentobarbital; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Receptors, GABA-A; Stereoisomerism

2001
Allosteric modulation in spontaneously active mutant gamma-aminobutyric acidA receptors.
    Neuroscience letters, 2001, Jun-01, Volume: 305, Issue:1

    Topics: Allosteric Regulation; Animals; Bicuculline; Electric Conductivity; Female; Flunitrazepam; GABA Antagonists; GABA Modulators; Patch-Clamp Techniques; Pentobarbital; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Protein Isoforms; Receptors, GABA-A; Xenopus laevis

2001
Tolerance to the anticonvulsant activity of midazolam and allopregnanolone in a model of picrotoxin seizures.
    European journal of pharmacology, 2001, Aug-10, Volume: 425, Issue:2

    Topics: Animals; Anticonvulsants; Disease Models, Animal; Dopamine; Drug Combinations; Drug Tolerance; Male; Mice; Midazolam; Muscle, Skeletal; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Receptors, GABA-A; Seizures

2001
Antagonism of picrotoxin-induced changes in dopamine and serotonin metabolism by allopregnanolone and midazolam.
    Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 2002, Volume: 72, Issue:4

    Topics: Amino Acids; Animals; Convulsants; Dopamine; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; GABA Antagonists; GABA Modulators; Injections, Intraventricular; Male; Mice; Microinjections; Midazolam; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Seizures; Serotonin

2002
Prenatal diazepam exposure functionally alters the GABA(A) receptor that modulates [3H]noradrenaline release from rat hippocampal synaptosomes.
    Developmental neuroscience, 2002, Volume: 24, Issue:1

    Topics: Allosteric Regulation; Animals; Baclofen; Bicuculline; Diazepam; Female; Fetal Proteins; GABA Agonists; GABA Antagonists; Hippocampus; Male; Mental Disorders; Nerve Tissue Proteins; Norepinephrine; Picrotoxin; Pregnancy; Pregnanolone; Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; Protein Subunits; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Receptors, GABA-A; Synaptosomes

2002
Functional characterization of GABA(A) receptors in neonatal hypothalamic brain slice.
    Journal of neurophysiology, 2002, Volume: 88, Issue:4

    Topics: Anesthetics; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Anticonvulsants; Carbolines; Convulsants; Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate; Diazepam; Diuretics; Female; Furosemide; GABA Agonists; GABA Modulators; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Hypothalamus; Male; Membrane Potentials; Organ Culture Techniques; Patch-Clamp Techniques; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Pyridines; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, GABA-A; Triazoles; Zinc; Zolpidem

2002
Modulation of GABAA receptors and neuropeptide secretion by the neurosteroid allopregnanolone in posterior and intermediate pituitary.
    Pharmacology & toxicology, 2003, Volume: 93, Issue:2

    Topics: alpha-MSH; Animals; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Synergism; GABA Antagonists; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Male; Nerve Endings; Neuropeptides; Patch-Clamp Techniques; Picrotoxin; Pituitary Gland; Pituitary Gland, Posterior; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, GABA-A; Time Factors; Vasopressins

2003
Long-term social isolation enhances picrotoxin seizure susceptibility in mice: up-regulatory role of endogenous brain allopregnanolone in GABAergic systems.
    Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 2003, Volume: 75, Issue:4

    Topics: Animals; Brain; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Male; Mice; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Receptors, GABA-A; Seizures; Social Isolation; Time; Up-Regulation

2003
Studies on the mechanisms of action of picrotoxin, quercetin and pregnanolone at the GABA rho 1 receptor.
    British journal of pharmacology, 2004, Volume: 141, Issue:4

    Topics: Animals; DNA, Complementary; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Electrophysiology; Evoked Potentials; GABA Antagonists; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Humans; Kinetics; Oocytes; Patch-Clamp Techniques; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Quercetin; Receptors, GABA-B; Recombinant Proteins; Xenopus laevis

2004
In the ventral tegmental area picrotoxin blocks FGIN 1-27-induced increases in sexual behavior of rats and hamsters.
    Psychopharmacology, 2005, Volume: 178, Issue:2-3

    Topics: Animals; Central Nervous System Stimulants; Cricetinae; Drug Interactions; Estradiol; Female; GABA Antagonists; Indoleacetic Acids; Motor Activity; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Rats; Rats, Long-Evans; Sexual Behavior, Animal; Stimulation, Chemical; Ventral Tegmental Area

2005
Effects of neurosteroid 3alpha-hydroxy-5alpha-pregnan-20-one on ethanol-mediated paired-pulse depression of population spikes in the CA1 region of rat hippocampal slices.
    Neuroscience letters, 2006, Feb-06, Volume: 394, Issue:1

    Topics: Action Potentials; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Central Nervous System Depressants; Cyclodextrins; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Interactions; Electric Stimulation; Ethanol; GABA Antagonists; Hippocampus; In Vitro Techniques; Neural Inhibition; Patch-Clamp Techniques; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Rats; Synaptic Transmission

2006
Allopregnanolone reduces immobility in the forced swimming test and increases the firing rate of lateral septal neurons through actions on the GABAA receptor in the rat.
    Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England), 2007, Volume: 21, Issue:1

    Topics: Action Potentials; Animals; Antidepressive Agents; Behavior, Animal; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Female; GABA Antagonists; Motor Activity; Neurons; Ovariectomy; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Wistar; Reaction Time; Receptors, GABA-A; Septal Nuclei; Swimming; Time Factors

2007
Neurosteroid modulation of GABAergic neurotransmission in the central amygdala: a role for NMDA receptors.
    Neuroscience letters, 2007, Mar-26, Volume: 415, Issue:2

    Topics: Amygdala; Analysis of Variance; Anesthetics; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Interactions; Electric Stimulation; Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; GABA Antagonists; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; In Vitro Techniques; Inhibitory Postsynaptic Potentials; Male; Membrane Potentials; Neurons; Patch-Clamp Techniques; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate; Synaptic Transmission

2007
Interaction of diazepam and swim stress.
    Brain research, 2007, Dec-12, Volume: 1184

    Topics: Analysis of Variance; Animals; Anticonvulsants; Behavior, Animal; Diazepam; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Drug Combinations; Mice; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Reaction Time; Seizures; Stress, Psychological; Swimming

2007
Involvement of neurosteroids in the anxiolytic-like effects of AC-5216 in mice.
    Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 2008, Volume: 89, Issue:2

    Topics: Animals; Anti-Anxiety Agents; Diazepam; Dihydrotestosterone; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Enzyme Inhibitors; Finasteride; GABA Antagonists; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Mice; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Purines; Receptors, GABA-A

2008
Investigation of the anticonvulsive effect of acute immobilization stress in anxious Balb/cByJ mice using GABA A-related mechanistic probes.
    Psychopharmacology, 2008, Volume: 197, Issue:4

    Topics: Allosteric Regulation; Animals; Anxiety; Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic; Clonazepam; Convulsants; Drug Interactions; Finasteride; Isoquinolines; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred BALB C; Oxazines; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Receptors, GABA-A; Restraint, Physical; Seizures; Stress, Psychological

2008
Allopregnanolone-induced rise in intracellular calcium in embryonic hippocampal neurons parallels their proliferative potential.
    BMC neuroscience, 2008, Dec-03, Volume: 9 Suppl 2

    Topics: Anesthetics; Animals; Bicuculline; Calcium; Calcium Channel Blockers; Calcium Channels, L-Type; Cell Proliferation; Cells, Cultured; Cytoplasm; Female; GABA Antagonists; Hippocampus; Neurons; Nifedipine; Picrotoxin; Pregnancy; Pregnanolone; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Review Literature as Topic

2008
Possible GABAergic modulation in the protective effect of allopregnanolone on sleep deprivation-induced anxiety-like behavior and oxidative damage in mice.
    Methods and findings in experimental and clinical pharmacology, 2008, Volume: 30, Issue:9

    Topics: Animals; Anxiety; Behavior, Animal; Body Weight; Catalase; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Flumazenil; GABA Agonists; GABA Antagonists; GABA Modulators; Glutathione; Lipid Peroxidation; Male; Maze Learning; Mice; Motor Activity; Muscimol; Neuroprotective Agents; Nitrites; Oxidative Stress; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Sleep Deprivation

2008
Allopregnanolone, the active metabolite of progesterone protects against neuronal damage in picrotoxin-induced seizure model in mice.
    Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 2010, Volume: 94, Issue:3

    Topics: Animals; Convulsants; Disease Models, Animal; Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; Enzyme Inhibitors; Finasteride; Indomethacin; Male; Mice; Neurons; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Seizures

2010
Investigation of the mechanisms of progesterone protection following oxygen-glucose deprivation in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures.
    Neuroscience letters, 2012, Jan-06, Volume: 506, Issue:1

    Topics: 5-alpha Reductase Inhibitors; Analysis of Variance; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Cell Death; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Finasteride; GABA Antagonists; Glucose; Hippocampus; Hypoxia; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Neuroprotective Agents; Organ Culture Techniques; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Progesterone; Propidium

2012
Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine alters Ca²⁺ dynamics in cultured hippocampal neurons: mitigation by NMDA receptor blockade and GABA(A) receptor-positive modulation.
    Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology, 2012, Volume: 130, Issue:2

    Topics: Action Potentials; Animals; Animals, Newborn; Anticonvulsants; Bicuculline; Bridged-Ring Compounds; Calcium Channel Blockers; Calcium Signaling; Cells, Cultured; Convulsants; Diazepam; Dizocilpine Maleate; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; GABA-A Receptor Antagonists; High-Throughput Screening Assays; Hippocampus; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Microelectrodes; Neurons; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Receptors, GABA-A; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate; Spectrometry, Fluorescence; Time Factors

2012
Bicuculline- and neurosteroid-sensitive tonic chloride current in rat hypoglossal motoneurons and atypical dual effect of SR95531.
    The European journal of neuroscience, 2013, Volume: 37, Issue:3

    Topics: Action Potentials; Animals; Bicuculline; Brain Stem; GABA-A Receptor Agonists; GABA-A Receptor Antagonists; Motor Neurons; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Protein Subunits; Pyridazines; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, GABA; Receptors, GABA-A

2013
Neurosteroid Agonist at GABAA receptor induces persistent neuroplasticity in VTA dopamine neurons.
    Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2014, Volume: 39, Issue:3

    Topics: Action Potentials; Animals; Dopamine; Dopaminergic Neurons; Excitatory Amino Acid Agents; Female; GABA Agents; gamma-Aminobutyric Acid; Glutamate Decarboxylase; Green Fluorescent Proteins; In Vitro Techniques; Male; Mice; Mice, Inbred C57BL; Mice, Transgenic; Neuronal Plasticity; Neurotransmitter Agents; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone; Receptors, GABA-A; Ventral Tegmental Area

2014
Allopregnanolone augments epileptiform activity of an in-vitro mouse hippocampal preparation in the first postnatal week.
    Epilepsy research, 2019, Volume: 157

    Topics: Animals; GABA-A Receptor Antagonists; Hippocampus; Membrane Potentials; Mice; Patch-Clamp Techniques; Picrotoxin; Pregnanolone

2019