Repeated ferret odor exposure induces different temporal patterns of same-stressor habituation and novel-stressor sensitization in both hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and forebrain c-fos expression in the rat

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 749-761

  Weinberg, Marc S ^a,b   Bhatt, Aadra P ^a   Girotti, Milena ^a   Masini, Cher V ^a   Day, Heidi E W ^a   Campeau, Serge ^a   Spencer, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; HABITUATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FERRETS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; ODORS; PERIODICITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 59649117453     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0958     Document Type: Article

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