Reduced hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis stress responses in late pregnancy: Central opioid inhibition and noradrenergic mechanisms

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 428-438

  Russell, John A ^a   Douglas, Alison J ^a   Brunton, Paula J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adrenal medulla; Endogenous opioids; Enkephalin; Forced swimming; Interleukin 1 ; Naloxone; Noradrenaline; Nucleus tractus solitarii

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MESSENGER RNA; NALOXONE; NORADRENALIN; OPIATE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

BRAIN STEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; RAT; STRESS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

RATTUS;

EID: 57649219435     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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