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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurochem. 2009 Nov 26;112(3):784–796. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2009.06509.x

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Dexamethasone inhibits ACTH release as well as ethanol-induced increases in steroid levels. Effect of dexamethasone (0.1 mg/kg, i.p.) for 90 min on the ethanol-induced increase in (a) plasma ACTH, (b) plasma progesterone, (c) 3α,5α-THP in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus and (d) adrenal StAR protein expression. Representative blot shown. StAR protein was normalized to β-actin and presented as % control. *p < 0.001 compared to control, **p < 0.01 compared to control, #p < 0.001 compared to ethanol (EtOH) (ANOVA, followed by Newman–Keuls test), n = 6 in duplicate.