Effects of chronic mild stress (CMS) on thyroid hormone function in two rat strains

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 247-257

  Kioukia, Nassia ^a   Bekris, Stathis ^b   Antoniou, Katerina ^b   Papadopoulou Daifoti, Zeta ^b   Christofidis, Ion ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chronic mild stress; Imipramine; Preference; Rat; Sucrose; Thyroid hormones

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; IMIPRAMINE; LIOTHYRONINE; SUCROSE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; HORMONE DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RAT; STRESS; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EATING; IMIPRAMINE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SERUM ALBUMIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0033968712     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(99)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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