Characterization of CRF, AVT, and ACTH cDNA and pituitary-adrenal axis function in Japanese quail divergently selected for tonic immobility

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 293, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Hazard, D ^a,b   Couty, M ^a   Guemene D ^a  

^a STATION DE RECHERCHES AVICOLES   (France)

^b INSTITUT FRANÇOIS MAGENDIE   (France)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUAIL; TONIC IMMOBILITY;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; COTURNIX; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 34548425089     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00070.2007     Document Type: Article

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