Female rats living in small cages respond to restraint stress with both adrenocortical corticosterone release and acetylcholine release in the hippocampus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 358, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 169-172

  Masuda, Junya ^a   Mitsushima, Dai ^a   Kimura, Fukuko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Corticosterone; Environmental space; Female rat; In vivo microdialysis; Restraint stress

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CORTICOSTERONE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; ESTROUS CYCLE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MICRODIALYSIS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS;

EID: 1642407961     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.01.021     Document Type: Article

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