Morphofunctional characteristics of pituitary adrenocorticotropes in an animal model of heat stress

Journal of Medical Biochemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 287-292

  Perčinić Popovska, Florina ^a   Ajdžanović, Vladimir ^b   Dinevska Kofkarovska, Suzana ^a   Jordanova, Maja ^a   Trifunović, Svetlana ^b   Šošić Jurjević, Branka ^b   Milošević, Verica ^b  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

ACTH; heat stress; male rats

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL VOLUME; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT STRESS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUMMER; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 80051498216     PISSN: 14528258     EISSN: 14528266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10011-011-0030-6     Document Type: Article

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