Neurosteroid biosynthesis in the quail b
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Tsutsui, Kazuyoshi ;Matsunaga, Masahiro ;Miyabara, Hitomi ;Ukena, Kazuyoshi
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The brain traditionally has been considered to be a target site of peripheral steroid hormones. In contrast to this classical concept, new findings over the past decade have shown that the brain itself also has the capability of forming steroids de novo, the soβcalled βneurosteroidsβ. D