Effects of Morris water maze testing on the neuroendocrine stress response and intrahypothalamic release of vasopressin and oxytocin in the rat

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 496-501

  Engelmann, Mario ^a   Ebner, Karl ^b   Landgraf, Rainer ^c   Wotjak, Carsten T ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACTH; Corticosterone; Oxytocin; Paraventricular nucleus; Stressor controllability; Supraoptic nucleus; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SWIMMING; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 33747055041     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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