Expression of fos-related antigens, oxytocin, dynorphin and galanin in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of lactating rats

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 356-367

  Eriksson, Maud ^a   Ceccatelli, Sandra ^a   Uvnäs Moberg, Kerstin ^a   Iadarola, Michael ^b   Hökfelt, Tomas ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

C Fos; Dynorphin; Galanin; Immunocytochemistry; In situ hybridization; Message associated peptide; Oxytocin; Suckling

Indexed keywords

DYNORPHIN; GALANIN; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; PEPTIDE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MILK EJECTION; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUCKLING; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; DYNORPHINS; FEMALE; GALANIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA PROBES; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0029993514     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000126976     Document Type: Article

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