Chapter 1.3 Functional neuroanatomy of the parvocellular vasopressinergic system: Transcriptional responses to stress and glucocorticoid feedback

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 119, Issue C, 1999, Pages 31-43

  Kovács, Krisztina J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VASOPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; STRESS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0032460640     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)61560-5     Document Type: Article

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