Adrenocorticotropic hormone (MC-2) receptor mRNA is expressed in rat sympathetic ganglia and up-regulated by stress

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 344, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 149-152

  Nankova, B B ^a   Kvetnansky, R ^b   Sabban, E L ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Melanocortin receptor; Stress; Sympathetic ganglia

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STELLATE GANGLION; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; UPREGULATION;

EID: 0037527604     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00361-6     Document Type: Article

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