Androgen receptors in the posterior bed nucleus of the stria terminalis increase neuropeptide expression and the stress-induced activation of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1433-1443

  Bingham, Brenda ^a   Myung, Clara ^a   Innala, Leyla ^a   Gray, Megan ^a   Anonuevo, Adam ^a   Viau, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

androgens; dihydrotestosterone; flutamide; HPA axis; posterior bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; HYDROXYFLUTAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN FOS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS; STRIA TERMINALIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; CASTRATION; CORTICOSTERONE; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; FLUTAMIDE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTAL NUCLEI; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79956057319     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.27     Document Type: Article

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