NGFI-A gene expression induced in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus by photic stimulation: Spread into hypothalamic periventricular somatostatin neurons and GABA receptor involvement

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3178-3184

  Tanaka, Masaki ^a   Iijima, Norio ^a   Amaya, Fumimasa ^a   Tamada, Yoshitaka ^a   Ibata, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baclofen; In situ hybridization; Photic stimulus; SCN; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BACLOFEN; GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; SOMATOSTATIN CELL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TIME;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DNA PROBES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA; RNA, MESSENGER; SOMATOSTATIN; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032874832     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00739.x     Document Type: Article

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