Posted by Larry Hoover on November 4, 2004, at 11:30:09
In reply to Re: xenoestrogens » Larry Hoover, posted by raybakes on November 3, 2004, at 14:04:44
> > When you start thinking hormones, it gets more complicated than anything else I can think of.
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> yep, agree with that!
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> The immune system seems to complicate things even further! Various abstracts clain that nearly every enzyme on the steroid pathway is influenced by the immune system - I wonder if the nervous system is the same?
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> "Interferon- Inhibits the Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Expression and Protein Levels in Primary Cultures of Rat Leydig Cells"
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> http://endo.endojournals.org/cgi/content/full/139/5/2217
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> RayYes, it is. All the steroids are neuroactive. Some call the steroids in the brain neuroactive-steroids, but they're the same ones that are floating around in blood.
Lar
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