Glucocorticoid negative feedback on the HPA axis in five inbred rat strains

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 274, Issue 2 43-2, 1998, Pages

  Gómez, Francisca ^a   De Kloet, E Ronald ^b   Armario, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brown Norway rats; Fischer 344 rats; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Lewis rats; Spontaneously hypertensive rats; Wistar Kyoto rats

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; METYRAPONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRESS; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BROWN NORWAY RAT; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FISCHER 344 RAT; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEWIS RAT; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ELECTROSHOCK; FEEDBACK; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; METYRAPONE; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; STRESS;

EID: 0031934853     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1998.274.2.r420     Document Type: Article

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