Overexpression of corticotropin-releasing hormone in transgenic mice and chronic stress-like autonomic and physiological alterations

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1751-1760

  Dirks, Anneloes ^a   Groenink, Lucianne ^a   Bouwknecht, J Adriaan ^a   Hijzen, Theo H ^a   Van Der Gugten, Jan ^a   Ronken, Eric ^a,b   Verbeek, J Sjef ^c   Veening, Jan G ^d   Dederen, Pieter J W C ^d   Korosi, Aniko ^e   Schoolderman, Louise F ^e   Roubos, Eric W ^e   Olivier, Berend ^a,f  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Solvay Pharmaceuticals Inc   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Chronic stress; CRF; CRH; Food intake; Heart rate; Mice; Quantitative immunocytochemistry; Radiotelemetry

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY TEMPERATURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GENOME; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TELEMETRY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY TEMPERATURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; STRESS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 18744396356     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02245.x     Document Type: Article

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