Publikationen von O. F. X. Almeida

Konakchieva, R.; Mitev, Y.; Almeida, O. F. X.; Patchev, V. K.: Chronic melatonin treatment and the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in the rat: attenuation of the secretory response to stress and effects on hypothalamic neuropeptide content and release. Biology of the Cell 89, S. 587 - 596 (1997)

Patchev, V. K.; Almeida, O. F. X.: Gender specificity in the neural regulation of the response to stress. Molecular Neurobiology 16, S. 56 - 80 (1997)

Patchev, V. K.; Montkowski, A.; Rouskova, D.; Koranyi, L.; Holsboer, F.; Almeida, O. F. X.: Neonatal treatment of rats with the neuroactive steroid tetrahydrocorticosterone (THDOC) abolishes the behavioral and neuroendocrine consequences of adverse early life events. Journal of Clinical Investigation 99, S. 962 - 966 (1997)

Hassan, A. H. S.; Rosenstiel, P. v.; Patchev, V. K.; Holsboer, F.; Almeida, O. F. X.: Exacerbation of apoptosis in the dentate gyrus of the aged rat by dexamethasone and the protective role of corticosterone. Experimental Neurology 140, S. 43 - 52 (1996)

Patchev, V. K.; Almeida, O. F. X.: Gonadal steroids exert facilitating and "buffering" effects on glucocorticoid-mediated transcriptional regulation of corticotropin-releasing hormone and corticosteroid receptor genes in rat brain. Journal of Neuroscience 16, S. 7077 - 7084 (1996)

Patchev, V. K.; Hassan, A. H. S.; Holsboer, F.; Almeida, O. F. X.: The neurosteroid tetrahydroprogesterone attenuates the endocrine response to stress and exerts glucocorticoid-like effects on vasopressin gene transcription in the rat hypothalamus. Neuropsychopharmacology 15, S. 533 - 540 (1996)

Shoaib, M.; Almeida, O. F. X.: Absence of tolerance to the aversive stimulus properties of ethanol following oral ethanol self-administration. Alcohol 13, S. 175 - 180 (1996)

Castrén, M.; Patchev, V. K.; Almeida, O. F. X.; Holsboer, F.; Trapp, T.; Castrén, E.: Regulation of rat mineralocorticoid receptor expression in neurons by progesterone. Endocrinology 136, S. 3800 - 3806 (1995)

Fischer, D.; Patchev, V. K.; Hellbach, S.; Hassan, A. H. S.; Almeida, O. F. X.: Lactation as a model of naturally reversible hypercorticalism. Plasticity in the mechanisms governing hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical activity in rats. Journal of Clinical Investigation 96, S. 1208 - 1215 (1995)

Patchev, V. K.; Almeida, O. F. X.: Corticosteroid regulation of gene expression and binding characteristics of vasopressin receptors in the rat brain. European Journal of Neuroscience 7, S. 1579 - 1583 (1995)

Patchev, V. K.; Hayashi, S.; Orikasa, C.; Almeida, O. F. X.: Implications of estrogen-dependent brain organization for gender differences in hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal regulation. FASEB Journal 9, S. 419 - 423 (1995)

Almeida, O. F. X.; Yassouridis, A.; Forgas-Moya, I.: Reduced availability of milk after central injections of corticotropin-releasing hormone in lactating rats. Neuroendocrinology 59, S. 72 - 77 (1994)

Patchev, V. K.; Shoaib, M.; Holsboer, F.; Almeida, O. F. X.: The neurosteroid tetrahydroprogesterone counteracts corticotropin-releasing hormone-induced anxiety and alters the release and gene expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the rat hypothalamus. Neuroscience 62, S. 263 - 271 (1994)

Schlosser, S. F.; Almeida, O. F. X.; Patchev, V. K.; Yassouridis, A.; Elands, J.: Oxytocin-stimulated release of ACTH from the rat pituitary is mediated by arginine vasopressin receptors of the V_1b type. Endocrinology 135, S. 2058 - 2063 (1994)

Spanagel, R.; Almeida, O. F. X.; Bartl, C.; Shippenberg, T. S.: Evidence that nor-binaltorphimine (nor-BNI) can function as an antagonist at multiple opioid receptor subtypes. European Journal of Pharmacology 264, S. 157 - 162 (1994)

Spanagel, R.; Almeida, O. F. X.; Bartl, C.; Shippenberg, T. S.: Endogenous k-opioid systems in opiate withdrawal: Role in aversion and accompanying changes in mesolimbic dopamine release. Psychopharmacology 115, S. 121 - 127 (1994)

Mitev, Y.; Almeida, O. F. X.; Patchev, V. K.: Pituitary-adrenal function and hypothalamic-endorphin release in vitro following food deprivation. Brain Research Bulletin 30, S. 7 - 10 (1993)

Patchev, V. K.; Schlosser, S. F.; Hassan, A. H. S.; Almeida, O. F. X.: Oxytocin binding sites in rat limbic and hypothalamic structures: site-specific modulation by adrenal and gonadal steroids. Neuroscience 57, S. 537 - 543 (1993)

Spanagel, R.; Almeida, O. F. X.; Shippenberg, T. S.: Long lasting changes in morphine-induced mesolimbic dopamine release after chronic morphine exposure. Synapse 14, S. 243 - 245 (1993)

Almeida, O. F. X.; Hassan, A. H. S.; Harbuz, M. S.; Linton, E. A.; Lightman, S. L.: Hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone and opioid peptide neurons: functional changes after adrenalectomy and/or castration. Brain Research 571, S. 189 - 198 (1992)