Identification of arginine vasotocin (AVT) neurons activated by acute and chronic restraint stress in the avian septum and anterior diencephalon

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 202, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-68

  Nagarajan, Gurueswar ^a   Tessaro, Brian A ^a   Kang, Seong W ^a   Kuenzel, Wayne J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine vasotocin; Co localization; Corticosterone; Hypothalamus; Parvocellular neurons

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; PROTEIN FOS;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKEN; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ARGININE VASOTOCIN; CO-LOCALIZATION; CORTICOSTERONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; PARVOCELLULAR NEURONS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CHICKENS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DIENCEPHALON; MALE; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 84900461113     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.04.012     Document Type: Article

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