Social isolation-induced changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the rat

Stress

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 259-264

  Serra, M ^a,b   Pisu, M G ^b   Floris, I ^a   Biggio, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Ethanol; HPA axis; Rat; Social isolation; Stress

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOSTERONE DERIVATIVE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; STEROID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GESTAGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEXAMETHASONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS;

EID: 31544442981     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890500495244     Document Type: Article

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