Localization and regulation of phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase gene expression in the heart of rats and mice during stress

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1018, Issue , 2004, Pages 405-417

  Kvetnansky, Richard ^a   Micutkova, Lucia ^a   Kubovcakova, Lucia ^a   Sabban, Esther L ^b   Palkovits, Miklos ^c   Krizanova, Olga ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

CRH knockout mice; Glucocorticoid regulation; Heart atria and ventricles; Immobilization stress; PNMT mRNA; PNMT protein

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART STRESS; HEART VENTRICLE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3242684190     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1296.050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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