Neuronal activation in the forebrain following electrical stimulation of the cuneiform nucleus in the rat: Hypothalamic expression of c-fos and NGFI- A messenger RNA

Neuroscience

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1069-1085

  Lam, W ^a   Gundlach, A L ^a   Verberne, A J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; immediate early genes; midbrain; sympathoexcitation; ventro medial hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INNERVATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030915939     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00527-1     Document Type: Article

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