Neurosteroids and stress physiology in adult songbirds
Stress increases adrenal glucocorticoid secretion, and chronic elevation of glucocorticoids can have detrimental effects on the brain. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is an androgen precursor synthesized in the adrenal glands, gonads or the brain and has anti-glucocorticoid properties. However, litt...
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University of British Columbia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7532 |