Enhancement of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis but not cytokine responses to stress challenges imposed during withdrawal from acute alcohol exposure in Sprague-Dawley rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-215

  Buck, Hollin M ^a   Hueston, Cara M ^a   Bishop, Cara M ^a   Deak, Terrence ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Alcohol; Corticosterone; Cytokine; Ethanol; HPA axis; Intragastric; Paraventricular nucleus; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOKINE;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOOTSHOCK; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINES; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 82955203262     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2388-z     Document Type: Article

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