c-fos gene expression is increased in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus of Sprague-Dawley rats with visceral pain induced by acetic acid without detectable changes of corticotrophin-releasing factor mRNA: A quantitative approach with an image analysis system

Anatomical Record

Volumn 290, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 406-413

  Hwang, Bang H ^a,d   Chang, Hung Ming ^a,b   Gu, Zhu Hua ^a   Suzuki, Ryoji ^a,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

c Fos immunostaining; c fos mRNA; Paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus; Visceral pain

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISCERAL PAIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, FOS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34247520851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20495     Document Type: Article

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