The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): Evidence for target tissue glucocorticoid resistance

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 48-61

  Taymans, Susan E ^a,b   Devries, A Courtney ^b   Devries, M Brigid ^b   Nelson, Randy J ^c   Friedman, Theodore C ^a   Castro, Margaret ^a   Detera Wadleigh, Sevilla ^a   Carter, C Sue ^b   Chrousos, George P ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRESS; VOLE;

EID: 0031127755     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.6849     Document Type: Article

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