Distribution, regulation and colocalization of the genes encoding the EP2- and EP4-PGE2 receptors in the rat brain and neuronal responses to systemic inflammation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2651-2668

  Zhang, Ji ^a   Rivest, Serge ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Blood vessels; Corticotroph axis; In situ hybridization histochemistry; Lipopolysaccharid; Proinflammatory cytokines

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ENDOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTAGLANDIN E RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 13; TURPENTINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CELL; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; INFLAMMATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PHENOTYPE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RNA PROBE; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATECHOLAMINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, PROSTAGLANDIN E; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TURPENTINE;

EID: 0032838324     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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