Stress, glucocorticoids and absences in a genetic epilepsy model

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 706-710

  Tolmacheva, Elena A ^a,c   Oitzl, Melly S ^b   van Luijtelaar, Gilles ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Absence seizures; Corticosterone; Hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis; Repeated foot shocks; Stress anticipation; WAG Rij rats

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ABSENCE; ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FOOTSHOCK; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RAT; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84860531443     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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