Region-specific immediate-early gene expression following the administration of corticotropin-releasing hormone in virgin and lactating rats

Brain Research

Volumn 770, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 151-162

  Da Costa, A P C ^a   Kampa, R J ^a   Windle, R J ^a   Ingram, C D ^a   Lightman, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; c fos; Lactation; Lateral septum; NGFI B; Paraventricular nucleus; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LACTATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STRESS; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030726818     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00764-6     Document Type: Article

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