Glucocorticoids are involved in the long-term effects of a single immobilization stress on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 992-1009

  Dal Zotto, Silvina ^a   Martí, Octavi ^a   Armario, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoids; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Immobilization; Long term effects; PTSD; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; METYRAPONE; MIFEPRISTONE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; HORMONE ANTAGONIST;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DESENSITIZATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ADAPTATION; ADRENAL GLAND; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; METYRAPONE; MIFEPRISTONE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0642337127     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(02)00120-8     Document Type: Article

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