Adrenal vasoactive intestinal peptide participates in neonatal corticosteroid production in the rat

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 3 42-3, 1997, Pages

  Bodnar, Melanie ^a   Sarrieau, Alain ^a   Deschepper, Christian F ^b   Walker, Claire Dominique ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adrenal gland; Adrenal peptides; Aldosterone; Corticosterone; Ontogeny

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ALDOSTERONE RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 0030798324     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1997.273.3.r1163     Document Type: Article

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