GABA regulates the rat hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis via different GABA-A receptor α-subtypes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 384-392

  Mikkelsen, Jens D ^a,b   Bundzikova, Jana ^c   Larsen, Marianne H ^a   Hansen, Henrik H ^a   Kiss, Alexander ^c  

^a NEUROSEARCH A S   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepine; Corticosterone; Fos; L 838,417; Paraventricular nucleus; Stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA5; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; L 818417; PROTEIN FOS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZOLPIDEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 57649210177     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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