Differential regulation of glucocorticoid receptor messenger RNA (GR- mRNA) by maternal deprivation in immature rat hypothalamus and limbic regions

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 265-268

  Avishai Eliner, Sarit ^a,b   Hatalski, Carolyn G ^a   Tabachnik, Elvan ^b   Eghbal Ahmadi, Mariam ^a   Baram, Tallie Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amygdala central nucleus; Glucocorticoid receptor messenger RNA; Hippocampus; Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus; Maternal deprivation; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

AGING; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033553517     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(99)00031-0     Document Type: Article

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