Prolactin response to formalin is related to the acute nociceptive response and it is attenuated by combined application of different stressors

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 69-76

  Mravec, Boris ^a,b   Bodnár, Ibolya ^a,c   Tillinger, Andrej ^a   Uhereczky, Gabriella ^c   Kvetnansky, Richard ^a   Palkovits, Miklós ^c   Nagy, György M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Formalin; Handling; Hypoglycemia; Immobilization; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; FORMALDEHYDE; NORADRENALIN; PROLACTIN;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANNULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RAT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FORMALDEHYDE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INSULIN; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS;

EID: 34848906560     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103750     Document Type: Article

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