Neonatal maternally deprived rats have as adults elevated basal pituitary-adrenal activity and enhanced susceptibility to apomorphine

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 501-506

  Rots, Nynke Y ^a   De Jong, Jeannette ^a   Workel, Judith O ^a   Levine, Seymour ^b   Cools, Alexander R ^c   De Kloet, E Ronald ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; Corticosteroid receptors; Corticosterone; CRH; Dopamine; Maternal deprivation; Stress hyporesponsive period

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DOPAMINE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GNAWING; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEWBORN; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOMORPHINE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0030014898     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2826.1996.04843.x     Document Type: Article

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