Differential responses to stress stimuli of Lewis and fischer rats at the pituitary and adrenocortical level

Endocrine Regulations

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 35-41

  Moncek, Fedor ^a   Kvetnansky, Richard ^a   Jezova, Daniela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

ACTH; Adrenals; Corticosterone; Fischer; Lewis; Pituitary; POMC mRNA; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; EXERCISE; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS; LEWIS RAT; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPLEEN; STRESS;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SPLEEN; STRESS;

EID: 0035293453     PISSN: 12100668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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