Fast regulation of steroid biosynthesis: A further piece in the neurosteroid puzzle [1] (multiple letters)

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 57-58

  Balthazart, Jacques ^a   Ball, Gregory F ^b   Rupprecht, Rainer ^c   Holsboer, Florian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AROMATASE; CALCIUM ION; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ESTROGEN; MAGNESIUM ION; NEUROSTEROID; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN);

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; LETTER; MEMBRANE BINDING; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE ENDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROID BINDING; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 0033950861     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-2236(99)01514-3     Document Type: Letter

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