Chronic alcohol exposure alters transcription broadly in a key integrative brain nucleus for homeostasis: The nucleus tractus solitarius

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-58

  Covarrubias, Maria Yolanda ^a   Khan, Rishi L ^a,b   Vadigepalli, Rajanikanth ^a   Hoek, Jan B ^a   Schwaber, James S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance of homeostasis; Functional annotation analysis; Microarray study of gene expression; Quantitative RT PCR validation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLUCOSE; LIPID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CATION TRANSPORT; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; DATA BASE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; LIPID METABOLISM; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEIZURE; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645798322     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00184.2005     Document Type: Article

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