Rapid changes in anterior pituitary cell phenotypes in male and female mice after acute cold stress

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2159-2167

  Senovilla, Laura ^a   Núñez, Lucía ^a   Villalobos, Carlos ^a   García Sancho, Javier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b Universidad de Valladolid y Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CORTICOTROPIN; HYPOTHALAMUS RELEASING FACTOR;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLD; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PROLACTIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42549142550     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-1030     Document Type: Article

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