Fos activation and upregulation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase in the rat pituitary by acute capsaicin injection

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 73-76

  Okere, Chuma O ^a,c   Higuchi, Takashi ^b   Kaba, Hideto ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Fos; N( ) nitro L arginine methyl ester; Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase; Nitric oxide synthase; Pituitary

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN C FOS; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; MALE; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY GLAND, POSTERIOR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0034624284     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01609-8     Document Type: Article

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