Corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNA levels in response to chronic mild stress rise in male but not in female rats while tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA levels decrease in both sexes

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-89

  Dunčko, Roman ^a   Kiss, Alexander ^a   Škultétyová, Ivana ^a   Rusnák, Milan ^a   Ježová, Daniela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Chronic mild stress; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Depression model; Gene expression; Rats; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SUCROSE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TASTE PREFERENCE; THYMUS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PHOTOPERIOD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS; SUCROSE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0035219611     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(00)00040-8     Document Type: Article

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