Adrenocorticotropic hormone and corticosterone responses to acute hypoxia in the neonatal rat: Effects of body temperature maintenance

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Bruder, Eric D ^a   Kamer, Kimberli J ^a   Guenther, Mitchell A ^a   Raff, Hershel ^a,b  

^a ST LUKE S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal cortex; Isothermia; Newborn; Oxygen; Pituitary

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT; HYPOTHERMIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUP (RODENT); RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; STRESS; WARMING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANOXIA; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHERMIA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 2; RECEPTORS, LDL; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79954560214     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00708.2010     Document Type: Article

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