Early experience and sex interact to influence limbic-hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal-axis function after acute alcohol administration in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1114-1119

  Barr, Christina S ^a   Newman, T K ^a   Lindell, S ^a   Becker, M L ^a   Shannon, C ^a   Champoux, M ^a   Suomi, S J ^a   Higley, J D ^a  

^a NIH Animal Center   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Alcohol; Nonhuman Primate; Sexual Dimorphism; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MACACA; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 3242710446     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000130973.94350.8C     Document Type: Article

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