Androgens are neuroprotective in the dentate gyrus of adrenalectomized female rats

Stress

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 185-194

  Frye, Cheryl A ^a   McCormick, Cheryl M ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenalectomy; Androgen; Cell death; Hippocampus; Neurosteroids; Nongenomic

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANEDIOL; ANDROSTANOLONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0033948952     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890009001122     Document Type: Article

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