Habituation to stress and dexamethasone suppression in rats with selective basal forebrain cholinergic lesions

Hippocampus

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 628-635

  Helm, Katherine A ^a   Ziegler, D R ^a   Gallagher, M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; HPA axis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; D 1756; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOTOXIN; SAPORIN;

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ADRENAL CORTEX; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ATTENUATION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EXPOSURE; FOREBRAIN; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPERACTIVITY; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CORTICOSTERONE; DENERVATION; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; DOWN-REGULATION; FEEDBACK; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; STRESS;

EID: 4243198270     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.10203     Document Type: Review

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