Responses in the hypothalamic monoaminergic system activity in ewes to β-endorphin, CRF and their antagonists

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 807-817

  Przekop, Franciszek ^a   Tomaszewska, Dorota ^a  

^a KIELANOWSKI INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND NUTRITION   (Poland)

Author keywords

endorphin; 5 HT; CRF; DA; hypothalamus median eminence; metabolites of monoamines; NE; stress

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST; DOPAMINE; GONADORELIN; NALOXONE; NORADRENALIN; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CATECHOLAMINE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BETA-ENDORPHIN; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 0029848549     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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