Effects of minor laboratory procedures, adrenalectomy, social defeat or acute alcohol on regional brain concentrations of corticosterone

Brain Research

Volumn 1238, Issue , 2008, Pages 12-22

  Croft, Adam P ^a   O'Callaghan, Matthew J ^b   Shaw, S G ^d   Connolly, Gerald ^c   Jacquot, Catherine ^c   Little, Hilary J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brain; Corticosterone; Hippocampus; Prefrontal cortex; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTERONE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LABORATORY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; ETHANOL; MALE; MICE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MUS;

EID: 54049091651     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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