The brain is an important target of adrenal steroid fictions: A comparison of synthetic and natural steroids

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 823, Issue , 1997, Pages 201-213

  McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STEROID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ATROPHY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL HYPOXIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STRESS; STROKE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030768984     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48392.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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