Sex differences in activated corticotropin-releasing factor neurons within stress-related neurocircuitry and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis hormones following restraint in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 234, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-52

  Babb, J A ^a   Masini, C V ^a   Day, H E W ^a   Campeau, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Estrous cycle; Medial preoptic area; Paraventricular nucleus; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR GENE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84873519193     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.12.051     Document Type: Article

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