The Brown Norway rat displays enhanced stress-induced ACTH reactivity at day 18 after 24-h maternal deprivation at day 3

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 199-203

  Workel, Judith O ^a   Oitzl, Melly S ^a   Ledeboer, Annemarie ^a   De Kloet, E Ronald ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ACTH; Aging; Brown Norway; Corticosterone; Maternal deprivation; Rat; Stress hyporesponsive period

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL STRESS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030810021     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(97)81796-8     Document Type: Article

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