Perinatal food deprivation induces marked alterations of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in 8-month-old male rats both under basal conditions and after a dehydration period

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 163-173

  Sebaai, Naima ^a,b   Lesage, Jean ^a   Breton, Christophe ^a   Vieau, Didier ^a   Deloof, Sylvie ^a,c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b SIDI MOHAMED BEN ABDELLAH UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^c UPRES EA 2701   (France)

Author keywords

Adrenal steroid receptors; Corticotropin; Dehydration; Food deprivation; Neonatal imprinting; Perinatal stress; Pro opiomelanocortin; Prohormone convertases; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; FURIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DEHYDRATION; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 2; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 2542590124     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000078098     Document Type: Article

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