Metabolic mapping of the brain in pregnant, parturient and lactating rats using Fos immunohistochemistry

Brain Research

Volumn 787, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 226-236

  Lin, Shi Hua ^a   Miyata, Seiji ^a   Matsunaga, Wataru ^a   Kawarabayashi, Tatsuhiko ^b   Nakashima, Toshihiro ^a   Kiyohara, Toshikazu ^a  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fos; Lactation; Maternal behavior; Parturition; Suckling stimulation

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LACTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0032559863     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01484-4     Document Type: Article

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