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CRH
(redirected from corticotropin-releasing hormone)

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CRHCentral Region Headquarters (National Weather Service)
CRHCorticotropin-Releasing Hormone
CRHColumbus Regional Hospital (Columbus, IN)
CRHChoate Rosemary Hall (prepatory high school)
CRHCement Roadstone Holding (construction company; Ireland)
CRHCharter Realty Holdings Ltd
CRHCulpeper Regional Hospital
CRHCornwall Regional Hospital (Montego Bay, Jamaica)
CRHChandler Regional Hospital (Chandler, Arizona)
CRHCold Reheat (power plants)
CRHCaliber Radius Head
CRHCalibrated Reference Hydrophone
CRHCollisional Resurfacing Hypothesis


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One likely messenger is corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), ordinarily a stress hormone secreted by the brain but produced in pregnancy by the baby's placenta.
The amazing placenta: take a closer look at the organ your baby ... by Buckley, Sarah J. / Mothering
That finding suggests that the entire "fight-or-flight" stress-response system based on corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) dates back to a common ancestor of vertebrates and insects.
Vertebrates, insects share the stress by Science News
The PVN of the hypothalamus has a large number of corticotropin-releasing hormone neuronal cell bodies and receives rich noradrenergic innervation from the brainstem, through the ventral noradrenergic bundle (Petrusz and Merchenthaler 1992).
Neuroendocrine effects of perfluorooctane sulfonate in rats by MohanKumar, Sheba M.J. / Environmental Health Perspectives
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