Stress-induced changes in c-Fos and corticotropin releasing hormone immunoreactivity in the amygdala of the spontaneously hypertensive rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 543-551

  Porter, Karen ^a   Hayward, Linda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; C Fos; Hypertension; Hypothalamus; Locus coeruleus; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ACUTE STRESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78149497404     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.08.036     Document Type: Article

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