Release of vasopressin within the rat paraventricular nucleus in response to emotional stress: A novel mechanism of regulating adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 7725-7732

  Wotjak, Carsten T ^a   Kubota, Masaharu ^a   Liebsch, Gudrun ^a   Montkowski, Alexandra ^a   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Neumann, Inga ^a   Landgraf, Rainer ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACTH; anxiety; HPA system; microdialysis; novelty; oxytocin; paraventricular nucleus; social defeat; stress; suprachiasmatic nucleus; supraoptic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0029860680     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-23-07725.1996     Document Type: Article

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