Effects of chronic academic stress on mental state and expression of glucocorticoid receptor α and β isoforms in healthy Japanese medical students

Stress

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 431-438

  Kurokawa, Ken ^a   Tanahashi, Toshihito ^a   Murata, Akiho ^a   Akaike, Yoko ^a   Katsuura, Sakurako ^a   Nishida, Kensei ^a   Masuda, Kiyoshi ^a   Kuwano, Yuki ^a   Kawai, Tomoko ^a   Rokutan, Kazuhito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Academic stress; glucocorticoid receptor; medical student; salivary cortisol; Self Rating Depression Scale (SDS); State and Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR BETA; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION INVENTORY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA LEVEL; SCHOOL STRESS; SELF CONCEPT; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 79958855432     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2011.555930     Document Type: Article

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