Rapid Central Corticosteroid Effects: Evidence for Membrane Glucocorticoid Receptors in the Brain1

Integrative and Comparative Biology, Sep 2005 by Tasker, Jeffrey G, Di, Shi, Malcher-Lopes, Renato

1 From the Symposium Recent Developments in Neurobiology presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 5-9 January 2004, at New Orleans, Louisiana.

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