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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Neuroendocrinol. 2018 Oct 7;30(10):e12641. doi: 10.1111/jne.12641

Figure 4.

Figure 4.

Glucocorticoid-induced suppression of synaptic excitation. Glucocorticoids stimulate the synthesis of the endocannabinoid 2-AG (eCB), which acts as a retrograde messenger to inhibit glutamate release from excitatory synapses via presynaptic CB1 receptor activation.