The parvocellular vasopressinergic system and responsiveness of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis during chronic stress

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue , 2008, Pages 29-39

  Aguilera, Greti ^a   Subburaju, Sivan ^a   Young, Sharla ^a   Chen, Jun ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH secretion; adrenalectomy; corticotrophin releasing hormone; hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus; pituitary mitogenesis; stress; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; VASOPRESSIN V1B RECEPTOR;

ACTH SECRETING CELL; ADRENALECTOMY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC STRESS; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MITOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; RODENTIA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 47549085728     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00403-2     Document Type: Review

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