Glucocorticoid- and mineralocorticoid receptors in microglial cells: The two receptors mediate differential effects of corticosteroids

GLIA

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-37

  Tanaka, Junya ^a   Fujita, Hiroko ^a   Matsuda, Seiji ^a   Toku, Kazuko ^a   Sakanaka, Masahiro ^a   Maeda, Nobuji ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

acid phosphatase; GM CSF; IL 3; lysosome; nitric oxide; proliferation

Indexed keywords

11,17 DIHYDROXY 6 METHYL 17 (1 PROPYNYL)ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIENE 3 ONE; 11,17-DIHYDROXY-6-METHYL-17-(1-PROPYNYL)ANDROSTA-1,4,6-TRIENE-3-ONE; ALDOSTERONE; ANDROSTANE DERIVATIVE; CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE; CYCLINE; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTRADIOL; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MIFEPRISTONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PRASTERONE; PREGNENOLONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FOREBRAIN; MICROGLIA; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ALDOSTERONE; ANDROSTANOLS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTERONE; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTRADIOL; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MICROGLIA; MIFEPRISTONE; PREGNENOLONE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031149325     PISSN: 08941491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1136(199705)20:1<23::AID-GLIA3>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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