 Mifepristone
"Mifepristone" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A progestational and glucocorticoid hormone antagonist. Its inhibition of progesterone induces bleeding during the luteal phase and in early pregnancy by releasing endogenous prostaglandins from the endometrium or decidua. As a glucocorticoid receptor antagonist, the drug has been used to treat hypercortisolism in patients with nonpituitary CUSHING SYNDROME.
| Descriptor ID |
D015735
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D04.808.365.415.580
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| Concept/Terms |
Mifeprex- Mifeprex
- Danco Brand of Mifepristone
- Mifepristone Danco Brand
Mifegyne- Mifegyne
- Exelgyn Brand of Mifepristone
- Mifepristone Exelgyn Brand
- Mifégyne
- Contragest Brand of Mifepristone
- Mifepristone Contragest Brand
R-38486- R-38486
- R 38486
- RU-38486
- RU 38486
- RU38486
- RU-486
- RU 486
- RU486
- R38486
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| 1984 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1986 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1987 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mifepristone" by people in Profiles.
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Domínguez-Ordóñez R, García-Juárez M, Lima-Hernández FJ, Gómora-Arrati P, Blaustein JD, González-Flores O. Sexual receptivity facilitated by unesterified estradiol: Dependence on estrogen and progestin receptors and priming dose of estradiol benzoate. Behav Neurosci. 2015 Dec; 129(6):777-88.
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Sit D, Rothschild AJ, Creinin MD, Hanusa BH, Wisner KL. Psychiatric outcomes following medical and surgical abortion. Hum Reprod. 2007 Mar; 22(3):878-84.
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Rothschild AJ. Placebo response in psychotic depression. J Clin Psychiatry. 2005 Dec; 66(12):1615; author reply 1615-6.
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Shannon CS, Winikoff B, Hausknecht R, Schaff E, Blumenthal PD, Oyer D, Sankey H, Wolff J, Goldberg R. Multicenter trial of a simplified mifepristone medical abortion regimen. Obstet Gynecol. 2005 Feb; 105(2):345-51.
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Rothschild AJ. Conflict-of-interest charge. Am J Psychiatry. 2004 Sep; 161(9):1721-2; discussion 1722.
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Goldstein J, Sites CK, Toth MJ. Progesterone stimulates cardiac muscle protein synthesis via receptor-dependent pathway. Fertil Steril. 2004 Aug; 82(2):430-6.
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Blaustein JD. Progestin receptors: neuronal integrators of hormonal and environmental stimulation. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2003 Dec; 1007:238-50.
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Belanoff JK, Rothschild AJ, Cassidy F, DeBattista C, Baulieu EE, Schold C, Schatzberg AF. An open label trial of C-1073 (mifepristone) for psychotic major depression. Biol Psychiatry. 2002 Sep 1; 52(5):386-92.
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Bennett AL, Gréco B, Blasberg ME, Blaustein JD. Response to male odours in progestin receptor- and oestrogen receptor-containing cells in female rat brain. J Neuroendocrinol. 2002 Jun; 14(6):442-9.
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Blaustein JD, Gréco B. A progestin antagonist blocks vaginocervical stimulation-induced fos expression in neurones containing progestin receptors in the rostral medial preoptic area. J Neuroendocrinol. 2002 Feb; 14(2):109-15.
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