Neurosteroids mediate pharmacological effects of ethanol: a new mechanism of ethanol action?

Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1999 Dec;23(12):1933-40. doi: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1999.tb04094.x.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Central Nervous System Depressants / pharmacology*
  • Cerebral Cortex / drug effects*
  • Cerebral Cortex / metabolism
  • Conditioning, Operant / drug effects*
  • Desoxycorticosterone / analogs & derivatives*
  • Desoxycorticosterone / metabolism
  • Ethanol / pharmacology*
  • Female
  • Haplorhini
  • Male
  • Pregnanolone / metabolism*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Receptors, GABA-A / drug effects*
  • Receptors, GABA-A / metabolism

Substances

  • Central Nervous System Depressants
  • Receptors, GABA-A
  • Ethanol
  • Desoxycorticosterone
  • tetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone
  • Pregnanolone