Anticonvulsant potencies of the enantiomers of the neurosteroids androsterone and etiocholanolone exceed those of the natural forms.

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Published in Psychopharmacology (Berl) on April 05, 2014

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Dorota Zolkowska1, Ashish Dhir, Kathiresan Krishnan, Douglas F Covey, Michael A Rogawski

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1: Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, 20817, USA.

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