Elevated corticosterone in the dorsal hindbrain increases plasma norepinephrine and neuropeptide Y, and recruits a vasopressin response to stress

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 307, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Daubert, Daisy L ^a   Looney, Benjamin M ^a   Clifton, Rebekah R ^a   Cho, Jake N ^a   Scheuer, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Nucleus of the solitary tract; Psychological stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROIDS; NUCLEUS OF THE SOLITARY TRACT; PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORTICOSTERONE; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 84904341737     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00326.2013     Document Type: Article

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