Corticotropin-releasing hormone expression is the major target for glucocorticoid feedback-control at the hypothalamic level

Brain Research

Volumn 818, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 488-491

  Kretz, Oliver ^a   Reichardt, Holger M ^b   Schütz, Günther ^b   Bock, Rudolf ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Glucocorticoid receptor deficiency; Median eminence; Neurophysin; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; NEUROPHYSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE HISTOCHEMISTRY; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEEDBACK; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICE; NEUROPHYSINS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 0033550697     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01277-3     Document Type: Article

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