Fos induction in selective hypothalamic neuroendocrine and medullary nuclei by intravenous injection of urocortin and corticotropin-releasing factor in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 855, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-57

  Wang, Lixin ^a,b   Martínez, Vicente ^a,b   Vale, Wylie ^c   Taché, Yvette ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Div Digest Dis Brain Res I   (United States)

^c SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Area postrema; Central nucleus of the amygdala; Nucleus tractus solitarius; Paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus; Supraoptic nucleus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; UROCORTIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CHOROID PLEXUS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EPENDYMA; HYPOGLOSSAL NERVE; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0343049026     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02200-3     Document Type: Article

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