Neuroendocrine and immunocytochemical demonstrations of decreased hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis responsiveness to restraint stress after long-term social isolation

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 579-587

  Sánchez, Mar ^a,d   Aguado, F ^b   Sanchez Toscano F ^c   Saphier, D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; OXYTOCIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; WEANING;

EID: 0031788014     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.2.5720     Document Type: Article

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