Psychoneuroendocrinology
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 813-823 , August 2007

Involvement of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the antidepressant-like effects of mild hypoxic preconditioning in rats

  • Elena Rybnikova

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makarova 6, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +78137072535; fax: +78123280501.
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  • Vera Mironova

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makarova 6, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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  • Svetlana Pivina

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makarova 6, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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  • Ekaterina Tulkova

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Regulation of Brain Neuron Functions, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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  • Natalia Ordyan

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Makarova 6, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
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  • Natalia Nalivaeva

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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  • Anthony Turner

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
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  • Michail Samoilov

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Regulation of Brain Neuron Functions, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Received 15 April 2007 ,Revised 19 April 2007 ,Accepted 21 May 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2007.05.010

Psychoneuroendocrinology
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 813-823 , August 2007

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