Adaptation of the pituitary-adrenal axis to daily repeated forced swim exposure in rats is dependent on the temperature of water

Stress

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 698-705

  Rabasa, Cristina ^a,b,c   Delgado Morales, Raul ^a,b,d   Gomez Roman, Almudena ^a,b   Nadal, Roser ^a,b   Armario, Antonio ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACTH; chronic stress; corticosterone; habituation; swimming behavior; swimming temperature

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMOBILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SWIMMING; WATER TEMPERATURE; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84885623245     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2013.824964     Document Type: Article

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