Effect of various stressors on the blood ACTH and corticosterone concentration in normotensive Wistar and spontaneously hypertensive Wistar-Kyoto rats

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 217-220

  Djordjevic, Jelena ^a   Vuckovic, Tamara ^a   Jasnic, Nebojsa ^a   Cvijic, Gordana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

ACTH; Corticosterone; Hypertension; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HORMONE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 34547137942     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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