Brain corticotropin-releasing factor immunoreactivity and receptors in five inbred rat strains: Relationship to forced swimming behaviour

Brain Research

Volumn 750, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 285-292

  Lahmame, Abdeljalil ^a   Grigoriadis, Dimitri E ^b   De Souza, Errol B ^b   Armario, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown Norway rat; corticotropin releasing factor; depression; Fisher 344 rat; forced swimming test; Lewis rat; spontaneously hypertensive rat; Wistar Kyoto rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 0031050918     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01368-6     Document Type: Article

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