Effect of immobilization stress on transcriptional activity of inducible immediate-early genes, corticotropin-releasing factor, its type 1 receptor, and enkephalin in the hypothalamus of borderline hypertensive rats

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1556-1566

  Mansi, James A ^a   Rivest, Serge ^a   Drolet, Guy ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Opioids; Paraventricular nucleus; Primary transcript

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; ENKEPHALIN; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE HYPERTENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0031929850     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1998.70041556.x     Document Type: Article

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