Suppressive effect of quercetin on acute stress-induced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response in Wistar rats

Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 374-380

  Kawabata, Kyuichi ^a   Kawai, Yoshichika ^a   Terao, Junji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

CAMP response element binding protein; Corticotropin releasing factor; Glucocorticoid receptor; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Quercetin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; QUERCETIN; STRESS HORMONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DEPRESSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DNA BINDING; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WATER IMMERSION; WISTAR RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DEPRESSION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMERSION; MALE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; QUERCETIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77951499001     PISSN: 09552863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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