An initial, three-day-long treatment with alcohol induces a long- lasting phenomenon of selective tolerance in the activity of the rat hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 8856-8866

  Lee, Soon ^a   Rivier, Catherine ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Alcohol; C fos; Corticosterone; NGFI B; PVN; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; VASOPRESSIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS TOLERANCE; HABITUATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030731507     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-22-08856.1997     Document Type: Article

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