Age-dependent changes in 24-hour rhythms of catecholamine content and turnover in hypothalamus, corpus striatum and pituitary gland of rats injected with Freund's adjuvant

BMC Physiology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-12

  Cano, Pilar ^a   Cardinali, Daniel P ^b   Chacon, Fernando ^a   Castrillón, Patricia O ^a   Reyes Toso, Carlos A ^b   Esquifino, Ana I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE; FREUND ADJUVANT; GONADOTROPIN; NORADRENALIN; PROLACTIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORPUS STRIATUM; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNIZATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RAT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; INJECTION; KINETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; HYPOTHALAMUS; INJECTIONS; KINETICS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0345576794     PISSN: 14726793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6793-1-1     Document Type: Article

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