Effects of Acute Progesterone Administration Upon Responses to Acute Psychosocial Stress in Men

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-86

  Childs, Emma ^a   Van Dam, Nicholas T ^a   de Wit, Harriet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

allopregnanolone; progesterone; stress; TSST

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; HEART RATE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROGESTERONE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749142519     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018060     Document Type: Article

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