Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) expression is differentially regulated in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of lactating rats exposed to suckling or cold stimulation

Brain Research

Volumn 1132, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 120-128

  Sánchez, Edith ^a,c   Fekete, Csaba ^b,c   Lechan, Ronald M ^c,d   Joseph Bravo, Patricia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript; Cold; Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus; In situ hybridization; Prolactin; Suckling; TRH

Indexed keywords

COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; CORTICOSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LACTATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RAT; SUCKLING; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; LACTATION; MOTHERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

RATTUS;

EID: 33846261226     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.11.020     Document Type: Article

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