Effect of dexfenfluramine on the transcriptional activation of CRF and its type 1 receptor within the paraventricular nucleus of the rat hypothalamus

British Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1021-1034

  Laflamme, Nathalie ^a   Bovetto, Sylvie ^a   Richard, Denis ^a   Rivest, Serge ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

5 HT; c fos; Corticotropin releasing factor; Dexfenfluramine; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Immediate early genes; Immunocytochemistry; In situ hybridization histochemistry; Intronic probe technology

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXFENFLURAMINE; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; GENE ACTIVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; TEGMENTUM; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029868447     PISSN: 00071188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1996.tb16692.x     Document Type: Article

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