Sex differences in the serotonergic influence on the hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal stress axis

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1784-1794

  Goel, Nirupa ^a   Bale, Tracy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE 2;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CITALOPRAM; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 77950287601     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-1180     Document Type: Article

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