Peripheral corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) and a novel CRF1 receptor agonist, stressin1-A activate CRF1 receptor expressing cholinergic and nitrergic myenteric neurons selectively in the colon of conscious rats

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 923-936

  Yuan, P Q ^a,c   Million, M ^a   Wu, S V ^a   Rivier, J ^b   Tache Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonic motility; Corticotropin releasing factor; CRF1 receptor; Enteric nervous system; Fos; Peripheral choline acetyltransferase; Stressin 1 A

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; PROTEIN FOS; STRESSIN1 A 22; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; DRUG MECHANISM; DUODENUM; ILEUM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; JEJUNUM; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NITRERGIC NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; COLON; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; MALE; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NITRERGIC NEURONS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 35848966985     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: 13652982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2007.00978.x     Document Type: Article

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