The effect of cocaine-amphetamine regulated transcript (CART) on the activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 60-62

  Baranowska, Boguslawa ^a   Wolinska Witort, Ewa ^a   Bik, Wojciech ^a   Baranowska Bik, Agnieszka ^a   Martynska, Lidia ^a   Chmielowska, Magdalena ^a  

^a MEDICAL CENTER FOR POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

ACTH; CART; Corticosterone

Indexed keywords

COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DECAPITATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; INFUSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUMP; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT;

EID: 33745663504     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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