Estrogen Suppresses Gastric Motility Response to Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone and Stress in Awake Rats

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 221-228

  Bond, Eleanor F ^a   Heitkemper, Margaret M ^a   Bailey, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen; Progesterone; Restraint stress; Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH)

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; PROTIRELIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL STRESS; OVARIECTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; COLONIC DISEASES, FUNCTIONAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARIECTOMY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0032092004     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199806)21:3<221::AID-NUR5>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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