Tryptophan hydroxylase mRNA levels are elevated by repeated immobilization stress in rat raphe nuclei but not in pineal gland

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 157-160

  Chamas, Firas ^a   Serova, Lidia ^a   Sabban, Esther L ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

GTP cyclohydrolase I; mRNA; Pineal gland; Raphe nuclei; Serotonin; Stress; Tryptophan hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; SEROTONIN; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ADAPTATION; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTONIN METABOLISM; STRESS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; MALE; PINEAL GLAND; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 0033522854     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00340-7     Document Type: Article

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