Acupuncture increases neuropeptide Y expression in hippocampus of maternally-separated rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 343, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-52

  Lim, Sabina ^a   Ryu, Yeun Hee ^a   Kim, Seung Tae ^a   Hong, Mee Suk ^a   Park, Hi Joon ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Depression; Hippocampus; Maternal separation; Neuropeptide Y

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0038731233     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00317-3     Document Type: Article

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