Postnatal aromatase blockade increases c-fos mRNA responses to acute restraint stress in adult male rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1603-1608

  Bingham, Brenda ^a   Wang, Nancy X R ^a   Innala, Leyla ^a   Viau, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIENE 3,17 DIONE; ARGIPRESSIN; AROMATASE; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FOREBRAIN; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; WEANING;

AGING; ANDROSTATRIENES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROMATASE; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; ESTROGENS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84859395986     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1749     Document Type: Article

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