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Polymorphisms in the FKBP5 gene region modulate recovery from psychosocial stress in healthy controls.
The European journal of neuroscience - 1 Jul 2008
Ising Marcus, Depping Anna-Mareike, Siebertz Anna, Lucae Susanne, Unschuld Paul G, Kloiber Stefan, Horstmann Sonja, Uhr Manfred, Müller-Myhsok Bertram, Holsboer Florian
Abstract excerpt
Mood and anxiety disorders are considered stress-related diseases characterized by an impaired function of mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors (MR and GR, respectively), the major regulatory elements of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. A number of so-called chaperone proteins moderate the function of these receptors. Genetic variations in one of these chaperones, FKBP5, were...
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