Activation of c-fos expression in the rat inferior olivary nucleus by ghrelin

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 353, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 157-160

  Zhang, Weizhen ^a   Lin, Theodore R ^a   Hu, Yuexian ^a   Fan, Yongyi ^a   Zhao, Lili ^a   Mulholland, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain stem; c fos; Ghrelin; Immediate early gene; Inferior olive; Rat

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFERIOR OLIVE; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UPREGULATION; VAGOTOMY; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0345528179     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.08.083     Document Type: Article

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