Stress and glucocorticoids regulated corticotropin releasing factor in rat prefrontal cortex

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 342, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 54-63

  Meng, Qing Yuan ^a   Chen, Xiao Ning ^a   Tong, Da Li ^a   Zhou, Jiang Ning ^a  

^a University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

Author keywords

Acute restraint stress; CRF; CRFR1; Glucocorticoid; PFC

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79960835819     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.05.035     Document Type: Article

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