Vasoactive intestinal peptide and corticotropin-releasing hormone increase β-endorphin release and proopiomelanocortin messenger RNA levels in primary cultures of hypothalamic cells: Effects of acute and chronic ethanol treatment

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 648-655

  Poplawski, Michael M ^a   Boyadjieva, Nadka ^a   Sarkar, Dipak K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endorphin Neurons; Corticotropin Releasing Hormone; Ethanol; Proopiomelanocortin; Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BETA-ENDORPHIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 17444398159     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000158834.11252.2E     Document Type: Article

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