Apomorphine-susceptible and apomorphine-unsusceptible Wistar rats differ in their susceptibility to inflammatory and infectious diseases: A study on rats with group-specific differences in structure and reactivity of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2580-2584

  Kavelaars, Annemieke ^a   Heijnen, Cobi J ^a   Ellenbroek, Bart ^b   Van Loveren, Henk ^c   Cools, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis; hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis; interferon ; interleukin 4; rats; T cells; Trichinella spiralis

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 4;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HELPER CELL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

EID: 0030988615     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-07-02580.1997     Document Type: Article

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