Acute stress increases the synthesis of 7α-hydroxypregnenolone, a new key neurosteroid stimulating locomotor activity, through corticosterone action in newts

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 794-805

  Haraguchi, Shogo ^a   Koyama, Teppei ^a   Hasunuma, Itaru ^a   Okuyama, Shin Ichiro ^a   Ubuka, Takayoshi ^a   Kikuyama, Sakae ^a   Do Rego, Jean Luc ^b   Vaudry, Hubert ^b   Tsutsui, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

7ALPHA HYDROXYPREGNENOLONE; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 7ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; NEUROSTEROID; PREGNENOLONE DERIVATIVE; SEROTONIN; TRILOSTANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPREGNENOLONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SALAMANDRIDAE; SEROTONIN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84856094580     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1422     Document Type: Article

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