Endocrine Abstracts

It is now well known that peripheral nervous system (PNS) is able to synthesize neurosteroids and to convert them, or hormonal steroids coming from the periphery, in neuroactive steroids. Moreover, PNS possess both classical (e.g., progesterone receptor, PR, androgen receptor, AR) and non-classical (e.g., GABAA receptor) steroid receptors and consequently may represent a target for the action of neuroactive steroids. Our data have indicated that neuroactive steroids, like for ...