CRH overproduction in transgenic mice: Behavioral and immune system modulation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 780, Issue , 1996, Pages 36-48

  Stenzel Poore, M P ^a   Duncan, J E ^a   Rittenberg, M B ^a   Bakke, A C ^a   Heinrichs, S C ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BONE MARROW; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSHING DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN; STRESS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0029922708     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb15110.x     Document Type: Article

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