Selective contributions of the medial preoptic nucleus to testosteronedependant regulation of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and the HPA axis

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 295, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Williamson, Martin ^a   Viau, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropin; Arginine vasopressin; Corticosterone; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Fos; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Medial amygdala

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DRUG IMPLANTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 57349097162     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.90389.2008     Document Type: Article

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