Progesterone as a neuroactive neurosteroid, with special reference to the effect of progesterone on myelination

Steroids

Volumn 65, Issue 10-11, 2000, Pages 605-612

  Baulieu, Etienne Emile ^a,b   Schumacher, Michael ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

Myelination; Neurosteroid; Progesterone; Schwann cells; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFECT; GLIA CELL; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; MYELINATION; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROTROPISM; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REMYELINIZATION; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYELIN SHEATH; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; SCHWANN CELLS; STEROIDS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 0033663852     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-128X(00)00173-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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