Effects of mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptor blockade on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function in female rats prenatally exposed to ethanol

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1916-1924

  Glavas, Maria M ^a   Yu, Wayne K ^a   Weinberg, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mifepristone; Pituitary Adrenal; Prenatal Ethanol; Rat; Spironolactone

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; WEANING;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; ETHANOL; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LACTATION; MALE; MIFEPRISTONE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPIRONOLACTONE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33750285720     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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