Concurrent elevation of the levels of expression of striatal preproenkephalin and preprodynorphin mRNA in the rat brain by chronic treatment with caffeine

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-32

  Datta, Ujjwal ^a   Noailles, Pierre A H ^a   Kraft, Madelyne ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Angulo, Jesus A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Basal ganglia; Methylxanthine; Preprodynorphin mRNA; Preproenkephalin mRNA; Striatum

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PEPTIDE; CAFFEINE; MESSENGER RNA; PREPROENKEPHALIN; PRODYNORPHIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DNA PROBES; DYNORPHINS; ENKEPHALINS; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030800179     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00526-0     Document Type: Article

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