Short-term (FOS) and long-term (FRA) protein expression in rat locus coeruleus neurons during the neurolab mission: Contribution of altered gravitational fields, stress, and other factors

Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 111-123

  Pompeiano, M ^a   D'Ascanio, P ^a   Centini, C ^a   Pompeiano, O ^a   Balaban, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Gravity; Immediate early genes; Noradrenaline; Space flight; STS 90

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FRA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN PROTECTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION;

NASA EXPERIMENT NUMBER 9301118;

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

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; GRAVITY, ALTERED; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS;

EID: 0037110693     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00402-5     Document Type: Article

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