Title : Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis responses to physostigmine: effects of Alzheimer's disease and gender.

Pub. Date : 1996 Jul 1

PMID : 8780856






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1 To address this question, we measured the plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity (beta E-LI), and cortisol responses to the cholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine in 10 healthy normal older subjects (age = 71 +/- 2 years) and 11 outpatients with probable AD (age = 72 +/- 2 years; Mini Mental State Exam score = 19 +/- 2). Physostigmine butyrylcholinesterase Homo sapiens