Impaired adaptation of gastrointestinal motility following chronic stress in maternally separated rats

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Bülbül, Mehmet ^a   Babygirija, Reji ^a   Cerjak, Diana ^a   Yoshimoto, Sazu ^a   Ludwig, Kirk ^a   Takahashi, Toku ^a  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute restraint stress; Chronic homotypic stress; Colonic transit; Corticotropin releasing factor; Gastric emptying; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EXPOSURE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; LIFE STRESS; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPARATION ANXIETY; STOMACH EMPTYING; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84859452447     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00447.2011     Document Type: Article

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