Dissociation of changes in hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone and pituitary proopiomelanocortin mRNA levels after prolonged stress exposure

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 190-192

  Škultétyová, Ivana ^a   Ježová, Daniela ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Immobilization; Messenger RNA; Proopiomelanocortin; Repeated stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344759167     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(99)00089-3     Document Type: Article

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