Involvement of central, but not placental corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) in heat stress induced immunosuppression during pregnancy

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 43-53

  Nakamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Nagase, Hirofumi ^a   Ogino, Keiki ^a   Hatta, Kotaro ^b   Matsuzaki, Ichiyo ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN BOKUTOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

CRH; Natural killer cell activity; Pituitary; Placenta; endorphin

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT STRESS; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0035174273     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brbi.2000.0591     Document Type: Article

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