Female responses to acute and repeated restraint stress differ from those in males

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 215-221

  Zavala, Jaidee K ^a   Fernandez, Almendra A ^a   Gosselink, Kristin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fos; Glucocorticoid receptor; HPA axis; Paraventricular nucleus; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958826576     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.03.022     Document Type: Article

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