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  • noun biochemistry, neuroscience A neuroactive steroid.

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Examples

  • On the other hand, the differences in nicotinic currents in male and female rodents may result from sex differences in cortical neurosteroid levels either directly or through differential nuclear translocation of steroid receptors.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Nyresa C. Alves et al. 2010

  • Increasing neurosteroid levels has reduced PTSD symptoms.

    StrategyPage.com 2010

  • Marx is researching treatment for people with traumatic brain injuries using the same kind of brain chemical, and early results show that increasing a person's neurosteroid level decreases his PTSD symptoms.

    Air Force Times - News 2009

  • Ganaxolone is the only neurosteroid in clinical development and is a unique GABA modulator that will expand the armamentarium of drugs available to treat epilepsy.

    unknown title 2009

  • Previous animal studies showed that blood neurosteroid levels correlated to brain neurosteroid levels, so Marx measured the blood neurosteroid levels of 90 male Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

    Air Force Times - News 2009

  • She found that the neurosteroid levels correlated to symptom severity in PTSD, depression and pain issues, and that those levels might be used to predict how a person reacts to therapy as well as to help develop new therapies.

    Air Force Times - News 2009

  • Ganaxolone is a synthetic neurosteroid and a derivative of the naturally occurring neuromodulator, allopregnanolone.

    unknown title 2009

  • Ganaxolone is the only neurosteroid in clinical development and is a unique GABA modulator that will expand the armamentarium of drugs available to treat epilepsy.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Ganaxolone is a synthetic neurosteroid and derivative of the naturally occurring neuromodulator, allopregnanolone.

    BioSpace.com Featured News and Stories 2009

  • Ganaxolone is a synthetic neurosteroid and a derivative of the naturally occurring neuromodulator, allopregnanolone.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

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