Fos and FRA protein expression in rat nucleus paragigantocellularis lateralis during different space flight conditions

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 65-74

  D'Ascanio, Paola ^a   Centini, Claudia ^a   Pompeiano, Maria ^a   Pompeiano, Ottavio ^a   Balaban, Evan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Gravity changes; Lateral reticular structures; Locus coeruleus; Neurolab

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FRA 1;

AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITY; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA EXPERIMENT NUMBER 9301118;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-90 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RESPIRATORY CENTER; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SPACE FLIGHT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UP-REGULATION; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0037107989     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(02)00840-7     Document Type: Article

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