Long-term dysregulation of brain corticotrophin and glucocorticoid receptors and stress reactivity by single early-life pain experience in male and female rats

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3015-3028

  Victoria, Nicole C ^a   Inoue, Kiyoshi ^b   Young, Larry J ^b   Murphy, Anne Z ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Corticosterone; HPA axis; Long term consequences; Neonate; Preterm infants; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATORY PAIN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEONATAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ADULT; CORTICOSTERONE; HPA AXIS; LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES; NEONATE; PRETERM INFANTS; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DENSITOMETRY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; PAIN; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 84888307894     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.08.013     Document Type: Article

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