Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to chronic stress in five inbred rat strains: Differential responses are mainly located at the adrenocortical level

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 327-337

  Gómez, Francisca ^a   Lahmame, Abdeljalil ^a   De Kloet, Ronald ^b   Armario, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Adrenal steroid receptors; Adrenal steroids; Adrenal steroid binding globulin; Corticotropin; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTROPHY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RNA PROBES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029870890     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000126973     Document Type: Article

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