Neuroendocrine Responses to Stress in Mice: Hyporesponsiveness in Pregnancy and Parturition

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5268-5276

  Douglas, Alison J ^a   Brunton, Paula J ^a   Bosch, Oliver J ^b   Russell, John A ^a   Neumann, Inga D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; TRANSCORTIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LACTATION; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VASOPRESSIN RELEASE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CORTICOSTERONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LACTATION; MICE; OPIOID PEPTIDES; OXYTOCIN; PARTURITION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0344394279     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0461     Document Type: Article

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