Expression of mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptor mRNA in the human hippocampus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-124

  Watzka, Matthias ^a   Beyenburg, Stefan ^a   Blümcke, Ingmar ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Bidlingmaier, Frank ^a   Stoffel Wagner, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid receptors; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Human; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0034714464     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01325-2     Document Type: Article

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