Aging alters the rhythmic expression of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide mRNA but not arginine vasopressin mRNA in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of female rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 4767-4774

  Krajnak, Kristine ^a   Kashon, Michael L ^a   Rosewell, Katherine L ^a   Wise, Phyllis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Arginine vasopressin; Females; Rhythms; Suprachiasmatic nuclei; Vasoactire intestinal polypeptide

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032526420     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-12-04767.1998     Document Type: Article

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