Tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA levels in locus ceruleus of rats during adaptation to long-term immobilization stress exposure

Molecular and Chemical Neuropathology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 249-258

  Rusnák, Milan ^a   Zórad, Stefan ^a   Buckendahl, Patricia ^b   Sabban, Esther L ^c   Kvetňanský, Richard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Locus ceruleus; Long term immobilization stress; Tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0031799139     PISSN: 10447393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02815186     Document Type: Article

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