Fos expression in forebrain afferents to the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus following swim stress

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 368, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 88-99

  Cullinan, William E ^b   Helmreich, Dana L ^a   Watson, Stanley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HPA axis; immunocytochemistry; rat; retrograde tracing; swim stress

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STILBAMIDINES; STRESS; SWIMMING;

EID: 0030006054     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960422)368:1<88::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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