Reduced peripheral expression of the glucocorticoid receptor α isoform in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder: A cumulative effect of trauma burden

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gola, Hannah ^a   Engler, Andrea ^b   Morath, Julia ^c   Adenauer, Hannah ^c   Elbert, Thomas ^c   Kolassa, Iris Tatjana ^a   Engler, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ALPHA GENE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR BETA GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIFE STRESS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907033667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086333     Document Type: Article

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