Why dexamethasone poorly penetrates in brain

Stress

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-19

  De Ronald Kloet, E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Brain; Corticosteroid receptors; Corticosterone; Dexamethasone; Multiple drug resistance (mdr)

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN P; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DRUG PENETRATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOPHYSIS; MOUSE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031433024     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253899709014734     Document Type: Article

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