17β-estradiol is required for the sexually dimorphic effects of repeated binge-pattern alcohol exposure on the HPA axis during adolescence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Przybycien Szymanska, Magdalena M ^a   Gillespie, Roberta A ^a   Pak, Toni R ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; ALCOHOL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN GENE; ARTICLE; BINGE DRINKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE GENE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HABITUATION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROMOTER REGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; METABOLISM; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ADOLESCENT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ESTRADIOL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84857464019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032263     Document Type: Article

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