The role of corticosterone in human hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal axis feedback

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-26

  Raubenheimer, Peter J ^a,c   Young, Elizabeth A ^b   Andrew, Ruth ^a   Seckl, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METYRAPONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STEROID 11BETA MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; MOOD; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CORTICOSTERONE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; METYRAPONE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 33745224303     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2006.02540.x     Document Type: Article

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