An association between stress-induced disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and disordered glucose metabolism in an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 898-909

  Cohen, H ^a   Kozlovsky, N ^a   Savion, N ^a   Matar, M A ^a   Loewenthal, U ^a   Loewenthal, N ^a   Zohar, J ^b   Kaplan, Z ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Animal model; Corticosterone; Glucose homeostasis; GLUT4; Insulin; Insulin receptor; Metabolic syndrome; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 4; INSULIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DISORDERS OF CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FISCHER 344 RAT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LEWIS RAT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDATOR STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INSULIN; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 71049180645     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: 13652826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2009.01913.x     Document Type: Article

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