Organizational role for pubertal androgens on adult hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal sensitivity to testosterone in the male rat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2977-2985

  Evuarherhe, Obaro M ^a   Leggett, J D ^a   Waite, E J ^a   Kershaw, Y M ^a   Atkinson, H C ^a   Lightman, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ARGIPRESSIN; CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE;

ACOUSTIC STRESS; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL STRESS RESPONSE; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASTRATION; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HYPOTHALAMIC STRESS RESPONSE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 67649644343     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.168393     Document Type: Article

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