Stress (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) and pain response in male rats exposed lifelong to high vs. low phytoestrogen diets

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 342, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 65-68

  Lephart, Edwin D ^a   Galindo, Edwardo ^a   Bu, Li Hong ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotrophin; Brain; Neural cell adhesion molecules; Pain; Rat; Soy; Stress; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PHYTOESTROGEN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DATA ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; FEEDING; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037448016     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00262-3     Document Type: Article

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