Male Fischer 344/N rats show a progressive central impairment of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis with advancing age

Endocrinology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 1611-1620

  Cizza, Giovanni ^a,b,d   Calogero, Aldo E ^b,e   Brady, Linda S ^a   Bagdy, Gyorgy ^a   Bergamini, Ettore ^d   Blackman, Marc R ^c   Chrousos, George P ^b   Gold, Philip W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e GARIBALDI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEADY STATE;

EID: 0028272996     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.134.4.8137722     Document Type: Article

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