Lack of trimethyltin (TMT)-induced elevation of plasma corticosterone in PACAP-deficient mice

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1070, Issue , 2006, Pages 450-456

  Morita, Yoshiko ^a   Yanagida, Daisuke ^a   Shintani, Norihito ^a   Ogita, Kiyokazu ^b   Nishiyama, Norito ^b   Tsuchida, Rie ^a   Hashimoto, Hitoshi ^a   Baba, Akemichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Food intake; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; Knockout mouse; PACAP; Trimethyltin (TMT)

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTOXIN; TRIMETHYLTIN; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SAFETY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

EID: 33746459318     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1317.060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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