Chronic social stress alters levels of corticotropin-releasing factor and arginine vasopressin mRNA in rat brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4895-4903

  Albeck, David S ^d,e   McKittrick, Christina R ^a   Caroline Blanchard, D ^b   Blanchard, Robert J ^b   Nikulina, Julia ^b   McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Sakai, Randall R ^c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

AVP; Corticosterone; CRF; In situ hybridization; Neuropeptide; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030912273     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-12-04895.1997     Document Type: Article

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