Psychological stress increased corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNA and content in the central nucleus of the amygdala but not in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 850, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 136-143

  Makino, Shinya ^a   Shibasaki, Tamotsu ^b   Yamauchi, Naoko ^b   Nishioka, Tatsuya ^a   Mimoto, Tomoko ^a   Wakabayashi, Ichiji ^b   Gold, Philip W ^c   Hashimoto, Kozo ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Paraventricular nucleus; Psychological stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA PROBES; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032753555     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02114-9     Document Type: Article

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