Expression of ionotropic glutamate receptor subunit mRNAs by paraventricular corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 95-98

  Aubry, Jean Michel ^a   Bartanusz, Viktor ^b   Pagliusi, Sonia ^c   Schulz, Pierre ^a   Kiss, Jozsef Z ^b  

^a Institutions Universitaires de Psychiatrie   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c GLAXO INST FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing factor; Glutamate receptors; Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus; In situ hybridization; mRNA

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030030840     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12380-6     Document Type: Article

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