Gender-specific regulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and the role of vasopressin during the neonatal period

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 439-445

  Makara, Gábor B ^a   Domokos, Ágnes ^a   Mergl, Zsuzsa ^a   Csabai, Katalin ^a   Barna, István ^a   Zelena, Dóra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

ACTH; Corticosterone; Ether stress; Maternal separation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRATTLEBORO RAT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENDER; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; STRESS;

RATTUS;

EID: 57649187094     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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