Knockdown of clock genes in the suprachiasmatic nucleus blocks prolactin surges and alters FRA expression in the locus coeruleus of female rats

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 293, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Poletini, Maristela O ^a   McKee, De'Nise T ^a   Kennett, Jessica E ^a   Doster, Jamie ^a   Freeman, Marc E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Norepinephrine; PERIOD1; PERIOD2

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; ESTRADIOL; PROLACTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FRA 1; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CYCLING; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCUS CERULEUS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RAT; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRINKING; ESTRADIOL; ESTROUS CYCLE; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; NEURONS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OVARIECTOMY; PROLACTIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 36148999798     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00341.2007     Document Type: Article

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