Cranial irradiation modulates hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and corticosteroid receptor expression in the hippocampus of juvenile rat

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 28, Issue SPECIAL ISSUES, 2009, Pages 219-227

  Velickovic, Natasa ^a   Djordjevic, Ana ^a   Drakulic, Dunja ^a   Stanojevic, Ivana ^a   Secerov, Bojana ^a   Horvat, Anica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid receptor; Hippocampus; HPA axis; Irradiation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN RADIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RAT; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADRENAL GLANDS; AGING; ANIMALS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77649234104     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/gpb_2009_03_219     Document Type: Article

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