A comparison of two repeated restraint stress paradigms on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis habituation, gonadal status and central neuropeptide expression in adult male rats

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 92-101

  Gray, M ^a   Bingham, B ^a   Viau, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Arginine vasopressin; Bed nuclei of the stria terminalis; Corticotrophin releasing hormone; Gonadotrophin releasing hormone

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GONADORELIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT ANIMAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GONAD; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYBRIDIZATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RODENT; STRIA TERMINALIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGING; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 75449115022     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: 13652826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2009.01941.x     Document Type: Article

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