From yeast to mammals, autophagy is an important mechanism for sustaining cellular
homeostasis through facilitating the degradation and recycling of aged and cytotoxic components. …

The actions of glucocorticoid hormones are mediated by an intracellular receptor, the
glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The mechanism of action of this ligand-inducible transcription factor …

It is now well established that cancer cells co-exist within a complex environment with stromal
cells and depend for their growth and dissemination on tight and plastic interactions with …

Previously, we showed that corticosterone regulates BDNF mRNA levels in the hippocampus.
In the present study, we have investigated the time course and dose-dependency of this …

… when administered to ADX animals (Schaaf et al., in press). However, after water maze
training, rats show increased BDNF mRNA expression in CAI at 1 hr after training (Schaaf et a]., …

The upper Holocene marine section from a kasten core taken from the oxygen minimum
zone off Karachi (Pakistan) at water depth 700 m contains continuously laminated sediments …

Following exposure to stress, cortisol is secreted from the adrenal cortex under the control
of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA-axis). Central in the regulation of the HPA-…

OBJECTIVE: To study the occurrence and function of polymorphism in the human glucocorticoid
receptor (hGR) gene in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (…

PREVIOUS reports have established the utility of selective catheterization of the inferior
petrosal sinus for determination of plasma ACTH concentrations in the diagnosis of pituitary-…

… weeks CMS’); 50–90 min of 5 μM diazepam treatment (‘Diazepam 5 μM’); or 2 weeks of CMS
with 0.8 μM fluoxetine treatment (‘2 weeks CMS+Fluoxetine 0.8 μM’; n=3–9 fish per group; …