Sex Specific Associations between Common Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene Variants and Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Responses to Psychosocial Stress

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 863-869

  Kumsta, Robert ^a   Entringer, Sonja ^a   Koper, Jan W ^b   van Rossum, Elisabeth F C ^b   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^a   Wüst, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Glucocortcoid receptor gene polymorphism; glucocorticoid sensitivity; hypothalamus pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; psychosocial stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ARTICLE; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; ETHINYL ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REFERENCE VALUES; SALIVA; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34748856162     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.04.013     Document Type: Article

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