Up-regulation of nitric oxide synthase messenger RNA in an integrated forebrain circuit involved in oxytocin secretion

Neuroscience

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-48

  Luckman, S M ^a   Huckett, L ^a   Bicknell, R J ^a   Voisin, D L ^a   Herbison, A E ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lactation; Lamina terminalis; NOS; Osmoregulation; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSPHERES; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREGNANCY; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; VASOPRESSINS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0031033533     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00498-8     Document Type: Article

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