Testosterone-induced neuronal apoptosis ELEVATED TESTOSTERONE INDUCES APOPTOSIS IN NEURONAL CELLS

ELEVATED TESTOSTERONE INDUCES APOPTOSIS IN NEURONAL CELLS Manuel Estrada*#, Anurag Varshney* and Barbara E. Ehrlich† Departments of Pharmacology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA Running title: Testosterone-induced neuronal apoptosis * These authors contributed equally to this work and are listed alphabetically. †Corresponding author: Barbara E Ehrlich, Department of Pharmacology, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8066. Phone 203 737 1158; Fax 203 737 2027; E-mail: [email protected]. # Present address: Programa de Fisiología y Biofísica, ICBM, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Correo 7, Santiago, Chile. Phone 56 2 9786272, Fax 56 2 7776916 Email: [email protected]