Changes in nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit mRNAs and nicotinic binding in spontaneously hypertensive stroke prone rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 169-172

  Ferrari, Rosaria ^a   Frasoldati, Andrea ^a   Leo, Giuseppina ^a   Torri, Carla ^a   Zini, Isabella ^a   Agnati, Luigi Francesco ^a   Zoli, Michele ^a  

^a Section of Physiology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active avoidance; In situ hybridization; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Pain; Receptor autoradiography; Spontaneously hypertensive rat

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DELAPRIL; EPIBATIDINE; INDAPAMIDE; IODINE 125; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOT PLATE TEST; HYPERTENSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STROKE; TAIL FLICK TEST;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BUNGAROTOXINS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NICOTINE; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032742750     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00879-4     Document Type: Article

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