Systemic oxytocin treatment modulates glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptor mRNA in the rat hippocampus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 343, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 97-100

  Petersson, Maria ^a   Uvnäs Moberg, Kerstin ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoid receptor; Hippocampus; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; In situ hybridization; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Oxytocin; Rat

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG MECHANISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

EID: 0038394291     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00334-3     Document Type: Article

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