The arginine vasopressin and corticotrophin-releasing hormone gene transcription responses to varied frequencies of repeated stress in rats

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 510, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 605-614

  Ma, Xin Ming ^a,b   Lightman, Stafford L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HABITUATION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ADULT; AVP GENE; CRH GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; HORMONE RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032528002     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.605bk.x     Document Type: Article

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