Cloning of glucocorticoid receptor and mineralocorticoid receptor cDNA and gene expression in the central nervous system of the tree shrew (Tupaia belangeri)

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 243-253

  Meyer, Ute ^a,b   Kruhøffer, Mogens ^b   Flügge, Gabriele ^a   Fuchs, Eberhard ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b IPF PHARMACEUTICALS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid receptor; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Stress; Tree shrew

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; SULFUR 35;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PINEAL BODY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RNA PROBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBFORNICAL ORGAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; TUPAIA;

EID: 0031808805     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00004-7     Document Type: Article

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