Prominent corticosteroid disturbance in experimental prion disease

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2723-2730

  Voigtländer, Till ^a,b   Unterberger, Ursula ^a,b   Touma, Chadi ^c,d   Palme, Rupert ^c   Polster, Brigitte ^a   Strohschneider, Michaela ^a   Dorner, Susanna ^a   Budka, Herbert ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Austrian Reference Centre for Human Prion Diseases   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid receptors; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical axis; Neurodegeneration; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN REGULATION; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRAPIE; STIMULUS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; PRION DISEASES; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 33744498628     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04801.x     Document Type: Article

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