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Neurosteroids, also
known as
neuroactive steroids, are
endogenous or
exogenous steroids that
rapidly alter neuronal excitability through interaction with...
- This is a list of
neurosteroids, or
natural and
synthetic steroids that are
active on the
mammalian nervous system through receptors other than steroid...
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binding to an
array of
nuclear and cell
surface receptors, and
acting as a
neurosteroid and
modulator of
neurotrophic factor receptors. In the
United States...
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Allopregnanolone is a
naturally occurring neurosteroid which is made in the body from the
hormone progesterone. As a medication,
allopregnanolone is referred...
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corticosteroids (glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids), as well as
neurosteroids, from cholesterol.
Steroidogenic enzymes are most
highly expressed in...
- addition,
pregnenolone is
biologically active in its own right,
acting as a
neurosteroid. In
addition to its role as a
natural hormone,
pregnenolone has been...
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hormone and
neurosteroid and a
metabolite of
androgens like
dihydrotestosterone (DHT). 3α-Androstanediol is an
inhibitory androstane neurosteroid and weak...
- brain,
complicating drug discovery. For example, the
binding site of
neurosteroids in the
GABAA receptor is not
known and
barbiturates bind at a beta subunit...
- than DHEA. The
steroid is
hormonally inert and is
instead an
important neurosteroid and neurotrophin.
Similarly to
other conjugated steroids, DHEA-S is devoid...
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Alexaki VI,
Avlonitis N,
Pediaditakis I,
Efstathopoulos P, et al. (2011). "
Neurosteroid dehydroepiandrosterone interacts with
nerve growth factor (NGF) receptors...
