Glucocorticoids decrease thyrotropin-releasing hormone messenger ribonucleic acid expression in the paraventricular nucleus of the human hypothalamus

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 323-327

  Alkemade, A ^a,b   Unmehopa, U A ^a   Wiersinga, W M ^b   Swaab, D F ^a   Fliers, E ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; PROTIRELIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PAIN; PANCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 12244278259     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2004-1430     Document Type: Article

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