Testosterone-dependent variations in plasma and intrapituitary corticosteroid binding globulin and stress hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity in the male rat

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 223-231

  Viau, Victor ^b   Meaney, Michael J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; BETA LIPOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCORTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BETA-ENDORPHIN; CORTICOSTERONE; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LIVER; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCORTIN;

EID: 2942556889     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.1810223     Document Type: Article

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