Variations in opioid peptide levels during the estrous cycle in Sprague-Dawley rats

Neuropeptides

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 195-206

  Roman, Erika ^a   Ploj, Karolina ^a   Gustafsson, Lisa ^a   Meyerson, Bengt J ^a   Nylander, Ingrid ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diestrus; Dynorphin; Estrus; Leu enkephalin Arg6; Met enkephalin Arg6Phe7; Neuropeptides; Nociceptin Orphanin FQ; Peptide processing; Proestrus; Radioimmunoassay

Indexed keywords

DYNORPHIN A; DYNORPHIN B; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN DERIVATIVE; LEUCINE ENKEPHALIN[6 ARGININE]; METENKEPHALIN[6 ARGININE 7 PHENYLALANINE]; NOCICEPTIN; OPIATE PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIESTRUS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ESTRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENKEPHALIN, METHIONINE; ENKEPHALINS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646398905     PISSN: 01434179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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