Hydrocortisone - Analysis
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Cold pressor stress impairs performance on working memory tasks requiring executive functions in healthy young men.

29 Sep 2009 The current study investigated the effects of cold pressor stress (CPS) on 2 working memory (WM) tasks differing in the demand they put on maintenance and executive processing. For this purpose 72 healthy young men were exposed either to a stress ... Read more...

The context counts: congruent learning and testing environments prevent memory retrieval impairment following stress.

30 Aug 2009 Stress before retention testing impairs memory, whereas memory performance is enhanced when the learning context is reinstated at retrieval. In the present study, we examined whether the negative impact of stress before memory retrieval can be ... Read more...

The maternal cortisol awakening response in human pregnancy is associated with the length of gestation.

27 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between intraindividual changes in cortisol responsiveness over pregnancy and the length of human gestation. STUDY DESIGN: Pregnancy-related changes in the cortisol awakening ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hydrocortisone - Analysis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Cold pressor stress impairs performance on working memory tasks requiring executive functions in healthy young men. 29 Sep 2009
• Salivary steroids. 30 Aug 2009
• The context counts: congruent learning and testing environments prevent memory retrieval impairment following stress. 30 Aug 2009
• The maternal cortisol awakening response in human pregnancy is associated with the length of gestation. 27 Aug 2009
• Stressed memories: how acute stress affects memory formation in humans. 10 Aug 2009
• Prenatal psychosocial stress exposure is associated with subsequent working memory performance in young women. 30 Jul 2009
• Changes in strength, power, and steroid hormones during a professional rugby union competition. 30 Jul 2009
• Validation of a radioimmunoassay for measuring fecal cortisol metabolites in the hystricomorph rodent, Octodon degus. 30 Jul 2009
• Validation of salivary cortisol and testosterone assays in chimpanzees by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. 30 Jul 2009
• Neuroendocrine and psychometric evaluation of a placebo version of the 'Trier Social Stress Test'. 30 Jul 2009
• An acute psychosocial stress enhances the neural response to smoking cues. 22 Jul 2009
• Surface plasmon resonance immunosensor for cortisol and cortisone determination. 8 Jul 2009
• Association of salivary cortisol circadian pattern with cynical hostility: multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. 8 Jul 2009
• Acute stress increases sex differences in risk seeking in the balloon analogue risk task. 29 Jun 2009
• Management of adrenocortical carcinoma. 29 Jun 2009
• Dyadic relationships and operational performance of male and female owners and their male dogs. 29 Jun 2009
• Salivary cortisol for assessment of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function. 27 Jun 2009
• Neural correlates of processing stressful information: an event-related fMRI study. 21 Jun 2009
• Genetics of human aggressive behaviour. 7 Jun 2009
• Characterization of a glucocorticoid receptor gene (GR, NR3C1) promoter polymorphism reveals functionality and extends a haplotype with putative clinical relevance. 3 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Hydrocortisone'

Definition: The main glucocorticoid secreted by the ADRENAL CORTEX. Its synthetic counterpart is used, either as an injection or topically, in the treatment of inflammation, allergy, collagen diseases, asthma, adrenocortical deficiency, shock, and some neoplastic conditions.

Chemical name: Pregn-4-ene-3,20-dione, 11,17,21-trihydroxy-, (11beta)-

Registry Number: 50-23-7

Descriptor UI: D006854

Alternative terms: Hydrocortisone; Cortisol; Hydrocortisone, (9 beta,10 alpha,11 alpha)-Isomer; Hydrocortisone, (11 alpha)-Isomer; Epicortisol; 11-Epicortisol; 11 Epicortisol; Cortifair; Cortril;

Allowable Qualifiers: administration & dosage; adverse effects; analogs & derivatives; analysis; antagonists & inhibitors; biosynthesis; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemical synthesis; classification; deficiency; diagnostic use; economics; genetics; history; immunology; isolation & purification; metabolism; pharmacokinetics; pharmacology; physiology; poisoning; radiation effects; secretion; standards; supply & distribution; therapeutic use; toxicity; urine; chemistry; contraindications; agonists;

Pharmacological Action: Anti-Inflammatory Agents;

Tree Number: D04.808.745.745.654.600; D06.472.040.585.353.476; D06.472.040.585.478.392;

History Note: /adv eff-pois-tox was HYDROCORTISONE TOXICOLOGY 1963-65