Effects of chronic stress on food acquisition, plasma hormones, and the estrous cycle of female rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 325-329

  Anderson, Sally M ^a   Saviolakis, George A ^a   Bauman, Richard A ^a   Chu, Kathy Y ^a   Ghosh, Soma ^a   Kant, G Jean ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Chronic stress; Corticosterone; Estradiol; Estrous cycle; Female rats; Progesterone; Prolactin; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN;

ANIMAL; APPETITE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; ESTRUS; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROSHOCK; ESCAPE REACTION; ESTRADIOL; ESTRUS; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HORMONES; MALE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030187126     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(96)00023-6     Document Type: Article

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