Evidence for a lack of phasic inhibitory properties of habituated stressors on HPA axis responses in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 568-575

  Masini, C V ^a   Day, H E W ^a   Gray, T ^a   Crema, L M ^a   Nyhuis, T J ^a   Babb, J A ^a   Campeau, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; C fos mRNA; Corticosterone; Noise stress; Restraint

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LOUDNESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NOISE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 82155185282     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.06.011     Document Type: Article

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