Neurocircuitry of stress integration: Anatomical pathways regulating the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis of the rat

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 541-551

  Ziegler, Dana R ^a,b   Herman, James P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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EID: 0036625640     PISSN: 00031569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/42.3.541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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