Selective hippocampal lesions do not increase adrenocortical activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 4345-4354

  Tuvnes, Frode A ^a   Steffenach, Hill Aina ^a   Murison, Robert ^b   Moser, May Britt ^a   Moser, Edvard I ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adrenocortical; Corticosterone; Endocrine; Hippocampus; HPA axis; Learning; Memory; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTERONE; MUSCIMOL; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; IBOTENIC ACID;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REST; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS; SUBICULUM; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; COLD; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTRIC SHOCK; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COLD; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROSHOCK; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; INFUSIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LEARNING; MALE; MUSCIMOL; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0038042228     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-10-04345.2003     Document Type: Article

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