Effects of cholinergic lesions produced by infusions of 192 IgG-saporin on glucocorticoid receptor mRNA expression in hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex of the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 765-774

  Helm, K A ^a   Han, J S ^a   Gallagher, M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal forebrain; Corticosteroids; Glucocorticoid receptor; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenocortical; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SAPORIN;

AGING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CORTICOSTERONE; DENERVATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS;

EID: 0037049257     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00487-6     Document Type: Article

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