Differential glucocorticoid effects on stress-induced gene expression in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and ACTH secretion in the rat

Stress

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 400-411

  Pace, Thaddeus W W ^a,b   Gaylord, Reginald I ^a   Jarvis, Erin ^a   Girotti, Milena ^a   Spencer, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AVP; CRH; Glucocorticoid negative feedback; HPA axis; Immediate early gene; PVN

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RNA; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; UPREGULATION; ZIF268 GENE;

ADRENALECTOMY; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 4, GROUP A, MEMBER 1; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70549102501     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890802530730     Document Type: Article

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