Corticotropin-releasing hormone mimics stress-induced colonic epithelial pathophysiology in the rat

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 277, Issue 2 40-2, 1999, Pages

  Santos, Javier ^a   Saunders, Paul R ^a   Hanssen, Nico P M ^b   Yang, Ping Chang ^a   Yates, Derrick ^a   Groot, Jack A ^b   Perdue, Mary H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colon; Neuroimmune interactions; Stress; Wistar Kyoto rats

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BRETYLIUM; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR[9-41]; DOXANTRAZOLE; FORMYLMETHIONYLLEUCYLPHENYLALANINE; HEXAMETHONIUM; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ADRENERGIC NERVE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ION PERMEABILITY; MALE; MAST CELL; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 0032878564     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.1999.277.2.g391     Document Type: Article

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