Attenuated neuroendocrine responses to emotional and physical stressors in pregnant rats involve adenohypophysial changes

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 508, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 289-300

  Neumann, I D ^a   Johnstone, H A ^b   Hatzinger, M ^a   Liebsch, G ^a   Shipston, M ^b   Russell, J A ^b   Landgraf, R ^a   Douglas, A J ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLIC AMP; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; IODINE 125; MELANOCORTIN 2 RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LACTATION; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PHYSICAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ACTH SECRETING CELL; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANXIETY; BREEDING; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FORCED SWIM TEST; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; RECEPTOR BINDING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

EID: 0032055239     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.289br.x     Document Type: Article

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