Lack of placental neurosteroid alters cortical development and female somatosensory function

Placental endocrine function is essential to fetal brain development. Placental hormones include neurosteroids such as allopregnanolone (ALLO), a regulator of neurodevelopmental processes via positive allosteric modulation of the GABAA receptor (GABAA-R). Using a mouse model (plKO) in which the gene...

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Main Authors: Dana Bakalar, Jiaqi J. O’Reilly, Helene Lacaille, Jacquelyn Salzbank, Jacob Ellegood, Jason P. Lerch, Toru Sasaki, Yuka Imamura, Kazue Hashimoto-Torii, Claire-Marie Vacher, Anna A. Penn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Endocrinology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2022.972033/full