Effects of Alzheimer's disease and gender on the hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal axis response to lumbar puncture stress

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 385-395

  Petrie, Eric C ^a,d   Wilkinson, Charles W ^b,d   Murray, Sharon ^c   Jensen, Carl ^a,d   Peskind, Elaine R ^a,c,d   Raskind, Murray A ^a,c,d  

^a Mental Health Service (116)   (United States)

^b Education   (United States)

^c VISN6   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Aging; Alzheimer's; Cortisol; Gender; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN[4-10]; HYDROCORTISONE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPINAL PUNCTURE; STRESS;

EID: 0032933985     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(98)00088-2     Document Type: Article

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