Brainstem prolactin-releasing peptide neurons are sensitive to stress and lactation

Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 771-778

  Morales, T ^b   Sawchenko, P E ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Catecholamine neurons; Corticotropin releasing factor; CRF; Follicle stimulating hormone; FSH; GnRH; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; HPA; HPG; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal; Lactation; Nucleus of the solitary tract; PrRP; Stress; Ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

PROLACTIN RELEASING FACTOR; PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN STEM; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; HYBRIDIZATION; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CELL COUNT; DIESTRUS; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; STRESS;

EID: 1642289106     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(03)00522-0     Document Type: Article

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