Corticosteroid Receptor Balance Hypothesis: Implications for Stress-Adaptation. Implications for Stress-Adaptation

Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior: Handbook of Stress

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 21-31

  de Kloet, E R ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal models; Behavioral adaptation; Brain; Corticosterone; Cortisol; Glucocorticoid receptors; HPA axis; Humans; Mineralocorticoid receptors; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018204591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800951-2.00003-0     Document Type: Chapter

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