Prolonged exposure to intermittent alcohol vapors blunts hypothalamic responsiveness to immune and non-immune signals

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 110-122

  Lee, Soon ^a   Schmidt, Donné ^c   Tilders, Fred ^c   Cole, Maury ^b   Smith, Amanda ^b   Rivier, Catherine ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b Department of Neurosciences   (United States)

^c Peptide Biology Laboratory ^*

Author keywords

Corticotropin Releasing Factor; Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) Axis; Paraventricular Nucleus (PVN); Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTOXEMIA; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033968539     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000374-200001000-00016     Document Type: Article

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