Differential stimulation of c-fos expression in hypothalamic nuclei of the rat brain during short-term heat acclimation and mild dehydration

Brain Research

Volumn 798, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 127-139

  Patronas, Panagiotis ^a   Horowitz, Michal ^b   Simon, Eckhart ^a   Gerstberger, Rüdiger ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Differential neuronal activation; Immediate early gene; Median preoptic nucleus (MnPO); Preoptic area

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PLASMA OSMOLARITY; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBFORNICAL ORGAN; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; DEHYDRATION; HEAT; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 0032490648     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00405-3     Document Type: Article

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