Role of brain allopregnanolone in the plasticity of ?-aminobutyric acid type A receptor in rat brain during pregnancy and after delivery (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Role of brain allopregnanolone in the plasticity of ?-aminobutyric acid type A receptor in rat brain during pregnancy and after delivery (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 1998-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1073/pnas.95.22.13284 (literal)
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  • A. Concas, M.C. Mostallino, P. Porcu, P. Follesa, M.L. Barbaccia, M. Trabucchi, R.H. Purdy, P. Grisenti and G. Biggio (1998)
    Role of brain allopregnanolone in the plasticity of ?-aminobutyric acid type A receptor in rat brain during pregnancy and after delivery
    in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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  • A. Concas, M.C. Mostallino, P. Porcu, P. Follesa, M.L. Barbaccia, M. Trabucchi, R.H. Purdy, P. Grisenti and G. Biggio (literal)
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  • 95 (literal)
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  • Department of Experimental Biology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari; Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome; Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California (literal)
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  • Role of brain allopregnanolone in the plasticity of ?-aminobutyric acid type A receptor in rat brain during pregnancy and after delivery (literal)
Abstract
  • The relation between changes in brain and plasma concentrations of neurosteroids and the function and structure of gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptors in the brain during pregnancy and after delivery was investigated in rats. In contrast with plasma, where all steroids increased in parallel, the kinetics of changes in the cerebrocortical concentrations of progesterone, allopregnanolone (AP), and allotetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone (THDOC) diverged during pregnancy. Progesterone was already maximally increased between days 10 and 15, whereas AP and allotetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone peaked around day 19. The stimulatory effect of muscimol on 36Cl- uptake by cerebrocortical membrane vesicles was decreased on days 15 and 19 of pregnancy and increased 2 days after delivery. Moreover, the expression in cerebral cortex and hippocampus of the mRNA encoding for gamma2L GABAA receptor subunit decreased during pregnancy and had returned to control values 2 days after delivery. Also alpha1, alpha2, alpha3, alpha4, beta1, beta2, beta3, and gamma2S mRNAs were measured and failed to change during pregnancy. Subchronic administration of finasteride, a 5alpha-reductase inhibitor, to pregnant rats reduced the concentrations of AP more in brain than in plasma as well as prevented the decreases in both the stimulatory effect of muscimol on 36Cl- uptake and the decrease of gamma2L mRNA observed during pregnancy. These results indicate that the plasticity of GABAA receptors during pregnancy and after delivery is functionally related to fluctuations in endogenous brain concentrations of AP whose rate of synthesis/metabolism appears to differ in the brain, compared with plasma, in pregnant rats. (literal)
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