Glucocorticoid receptor-immunoreactivity in corticotrophin-releasing factor afferents to the locus coeruleus

Brain Research

Volumn 816, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-28

  Lechner, Sandra M ^a   Valentino, Rita J ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrington's nucleus; Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Central nucleus of the amygdala; Corticotropin releasing factor; Glucocorticoid receptor; Locus coeruleus; Norepinephrine

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN;

ADRENALECTOMY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HORMONE RELEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRIA TERMINALIS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 0033573775     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00900-7     Document Type: Article

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