Water deprivation activates a glutamatergic projection from the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus to the rostral ventrolateral medulla

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 494, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 673-685

  Stocker, Sean D ^a,b   Simmons, Johnny R ^c   Stornetta, Ruth L ^c   Toney, Glenn M ^b   Guyenet, Patrice G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; c Fos; Oxytocin; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Vasopressin; VGLUT2

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 2; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPHYSIN; OXYTOCIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOPRESSIN; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ANIMALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; WATER DEPRIVATION;

EID: 30144442891     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20835     Document Type: Article

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