Expression of brain nitric oxide synthase in the developing rat pineal gland coincides with the appearance of the adrenergic cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate response

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-73

  Layes, Elisabeth ^a   Schollmayer, Andreas ^a   Spessert, Rainer ^a   Vollrath, Lutz ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenergic stimulation; Brain nitric oxide synthase; Cyclic guanosine 3',5' monophosphate; Development; Nitric oxide; Rat pineal gland; Western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030570379     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12765-8     Document Type: Article

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