Corticosterone release in oxytocin gene deletion mice following exposure to psychogenic versus non-psychogenic stress

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 442, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 262-266

  Amico, Janet A ^a,b   Cai, Hou ming ^b   Vollmer, Regis R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Hypoglycemia; Oxytocin; Stress induced hyperthermia

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; INSULIN; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE METER; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OXYTOCIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 48749114967     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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