Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) induce phosphorylation of the transcription factor CREB in subpopulations of rat pinealocytes: Immunocytochemical and immunochemical evidence

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 286, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 305-313

  Schomerus, Christof ^a   Maronde, Erik ^a   Laedtke, Elke ^a   Korf, Horst Werner ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CREB (cyclic AMP response element binding protein); Melatonin; Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypetide (PACAP) Pinealocytes; Rat (Wistar); Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; FORSKOLIN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; NORADRENALIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PINEALOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PINEAL GLAND; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029985034     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050700     Document Type: Article

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