Ghrelin regulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and restricts anxiety after acute stress

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 457-465

  Spencer, Sarah J ^a   Xu, Lu ^b   Clarke, Melanie A ^a   Lemus, Moyra ^a   Reichenbach, Alex ^a   Geenen, Bram ^b   Kozicz, Tams ^b   Andrews, Zane B ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; depression; ghrelin; hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; knockout; stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EDINGER WESTPHAL NUCLEUS; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GHRELIN; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84865205876     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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