Glucocorticoids increase the accumulation of reactive oxygen species and enhance adriamycin-induced toxicity in neuronal culture

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 201-206

  McIntosh, Laura J ^a   Sapolsky, Robert M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DOXORUBICIN; FREE RADICAL; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030271492     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0154     Document Type: Article

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