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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Endocrinol. 2015 May 1;226(2):T67–T83. doi: 10.1530/JOE-15-0121

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The hippocampal formation is a target of adrenocortical steroids and is involved in spatial and episodic memory, as well as mood regulation. Both pyramidal neurons in Ammon’s horn and neurons of the dentate express Type I or mineralocorticoid (MR) and Type 2 or glucocorticoid (GR) receptors.