Effects of acute restraint stress on tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA expression in locus coeruleus of Wistar and Wistar-Kyoto rats

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-7

  Sands, Scott A ^a   Strong, Randy ^a   Corbitt, James ^a   Morilak, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; In situ hybridization; Norepinephrine; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2B ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMPORTERS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0033964501     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(99)00255-7     Document Type: Article

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