Elevated arylalkylamine-N-acetyltransferase (AA-NAT) gene expression in medial habenular and suprachiasmatic nuclei of hibernating ground squirrels

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 9-17

  Yu, Erik Z ^a   Hallenbeck, John M ^b   Cai, Decheng ^b   McCarron, Richard M ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epithalamus; Extra pineal; Hibernation; Hypothalamus; In situ hybridization; Melatonin biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; ARYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN NF 70;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE PROBE; HABENULA; HIBERNATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PINEAL BODY; SCIURIDAE; SECRETION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMAL; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HABENULA; HIBERNATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MELATONIN; NEURONS; PINEAL GLAND; RNA, MESSENGER; SCIURIDAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; UP-REGULATION; ANIMALS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS TRIDECEMLINEATUS;

EID: 0037097305     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(02)00138-9     Document Type: Article

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