Gonadal steroid hormones maintain the stress-induced acetylcholine release in the hippocampus: Simultaneous measurements of the extracellular acetylcholine and serum corticosterone levels in the same subjects

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 802-811

  Mitsushima, Dai ^a   Takase, Kenkichi ^a   Funabashi, Toshiya ^a   Kimura, Fukuko ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FLUTAMIDE; LETROZOLE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GONADECTOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FLUTAMIDE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NITRILES; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS; TESTOSTERONE; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 38549105188     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0827     Document Type: Article

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