Stress-induced alterations in catecholamine enzymes gene expression in the hypothalamic dorsomedial nucleus are modulated by caudal brain and not hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus neurons

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 74, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 147-154

  Mravec, Boris ^a,b   Lukackova, Renata ^a   Bodnar, Ibolya ^a,c   Kiss, Alexander ^a   Pacak, Karel ^d   Palkovits, Miklós ^c   Kvetnansky, Richard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatic l amino acid decarboxylase; Dopamine hydroxylase; Immobilization stress; Norepinephrine; Phenylethanolamine N methyltransferase; Rats; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AROMATIC-L-AMINO-ACID DECARBOXYLASES; CATECHOLAMINES; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 34547522366     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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