Adaptation to prolonged or repeated stress – comparison between rat strains showing intrinsic differences in reactivity to acute stress

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 360-368

  Dhabhar, Firdaus S ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Spencer, Robert L ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal hypertrophy; Adrenal steroids; Chronic; Corticotropin; Fischer 344 rats; Habituation; Lewis rats; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HABITUATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; KINETICS; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS;

EID: 0030986164     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000127196     Document Type: Article

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