Different mechanisms mediate the in vivo aldosterone and corticosterone responses to 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine in rats

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 277-281

  Malendowicz, L K ^a   Rebuffat, P ^b   Andreis, P G ^b   Nussdorfer, G G ^b,c   Nowak, M ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

5 bromo 2' deoxyuridine; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal axis; Rat; Steroid secretion

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANGIOTENSIN II ANTAGONIST; ARGININE VASSOPRESSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ARGIPRESSIN RECEPTOR; BROXURIDINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN INHIBITING PEPTIDE; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ALDOSTERONE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030659597     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1211765     Document Type: Article

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