Pivagabine-induced increases in the abundance of CRF mRNA in the cerebral cortex and hypothalamus of rats

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 52-57

  Follesa, Paolo ^a   Cagetti, Elisabetta ^a   Porta, Stefania ^a   Espositoto, Gaetano ^a   Biggio, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PIVAGABINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ELECTROSHOCK; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034624219     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(00)00209-6     Document Type: Article

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