The effect of acute heat exposure on rat pituitary corticotroph activation: The role of vasopressin

Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 507-512

  Jasnic, Nebojsa ^a   Korac, Aleksandra ^a   Velickovic, Ksenija ^a   Golic, Igor ^a   Djurasevic, Sinisa ^a   Djordjevic, Iva ^a   Vujovic, Predrag ^a   Cvijic, Gordana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

ACTH; Corticosterone; Heat stress; Immunohistochemistry; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ACTH SECRETING CELL; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CYTOPLASM; DEGRANULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; STELLATE CELL; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

RATTUS;

EID: 79958039225     PISSN: 02398508     EISSN: 18975631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10042-010-0071-6     Document Type: Article

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