Increase of urocortin-like immunoreactivity in the rat supraoptic nucleus after dehydration but not food deprivation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-68

  Hara, Yuko ^a   Ueta, Yoichi ^b   Isse, Toyohi ^b   Kabashima, Narutoshi ^b   Shibuya, Izumi ^b   Hattori, Yukio ^a   Yamashita, Hiroshi ^b  

^a NOTRE DAME SEISHIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Fasting; Immunohistochemistry; Rat; Supraoptic nucleus; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; UROCORTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DIET RESTRICTION; FLUID BALANCE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEHYDRATION; FOOD DEPRIVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030748444     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00419-9     Document Type: Article

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