Neurosteroids. Biosynthesis and function

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 1-8

  Robel, Paul ^a   Baulieu, Etienne Emile ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL; CYCLIC AMP; PRASTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE;

AGING; DEVELOPMENT; ESTRUS CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIA CELL; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE METABOLISM; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; SHORT SURVEY; STEROID METABOLISM; STEROIDOGENESIS; STRESS;

EID: 0028323585     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1043-2760(94)90114-7     Document Type: Review

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