Neuroendocrine response during stress with relation to gender differences

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 779-785

  Ježová, Daniela ^a   Juránková, Elena ^a   Mosnárová, Alena ^b   Kriška, Milan ^b   Škultétyová, Ivana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

gender differences; hormones; neuroendocrine response; stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS;

EID: 0029818306     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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