The impact of the hormonal milieu and stress-associated hypothalamic dopaminergic activation on the rapid compensatory adrenal growth in cycling female rats

Hormones

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 303-312

  Sfikakis, Anastasia ^a   Pitychoutis, Pothitos M ^a   Antoniou, Katerina ^a   Bikas, Nikolaos ^a   Papadopoulou Daifoti, Zeta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compensatory and individual adrenal growth; Diestrus 2; Hypothalamic dopamine; Proestrus; Stress

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; HORMONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIESTRUS; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PROESTRUS; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; SURGICAL STRESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 60549093580     PISSN: 11093099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14310/horm.2002.1211     Document Type: Article

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