How do sex and stress hormones affect nerve cells?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 743, Issue , 1994, Pages 1-18

  McEwen, B S ^a   Gibbs, R ^a   Harvey, M ^a   Grayson, M ^a   Moorjani, B ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMENTIA; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BINDING; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STRESS; SYNAPSE; TESTOSTERONE METABOLISM; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0028584388     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb55784.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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