Effects of long-term voluntary exercise on the mouse hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3012-3023

  Droste, Susanne K ^a,b   Gesing, Angela ^a   Ulbricht, Sabine ^a   Müller, Marine B ^a   Linthorst, Astrid C E ^a,b   Reul, Johannes M H M ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ABDOMEN; ADAPTATION; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DARKNESS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENT; EXERCISE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THYMUS; TREADMILL;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DRINKING; EATING; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS; SWIMMING; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCORTIN; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VOLITION;

EID: 0037772262     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0097     Document Type: Article

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