Cortisol decreases prefrontal glutamine concentrations
In rodents, stress and corticosteroids rapidly increase excitatory neurotransmission. During excitatory neurotransmission, glutamate concentrations are maintained by conversion of glutamine to glutamate. The hypothesis was that cortisol would alter human prefrontal glutamine or glutamate concentrati...
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| Language: | en_US |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10048/804 |