Stressor specificity and effect of prior experience on catecholamine biosynthetic enzyme phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1032, Issue , 2004, Pages 117-129

  Kvetnansky, Richard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Adrenal medulla; Chronic cold stress; Novel stressors; PNMT mRNA; Protein and activity; Repeated immobilization stress; Stressor specificity

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE; DEOXYGLUCOSE; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; COLD STRESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PNMT GENE; RAT; STRESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 14544290924     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1314.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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