Long-term effects of a single exposure to immobilization stress on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: Transcriptional evidence for a progressive desensitization process

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1353-1361

  Vallès, Astrid ^a   Martí, Octavi ^a   Armario, Antonio ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

Author keywords

c fos; Corticosterone; CRF; Rat; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RNA; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; GENE ACTIVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0141593528     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02857.x     Document Type: Article

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