Chronic cold exposure increases RGS7 expression and decreases α2-autoreceptor-mediated inhibition of noradrenergic locus coeruleus neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2433-2443

  Jedema, Hank P ^a,b   Gold, Stephen J ^c   Gonzalez Burgos, Guillermo ^a,b   Sved, Alan F ^a,b   Tobe, Ben J ^d   Wensel, Theodore G ^d   Grace, Anthony A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

2 adrenergic receptor; Chronic stress; Clonidine; Norepinephrine; Rat; RGS protein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 AUTORECEPTOR; AUTORECEPTOR; CLONIDINE; RGS PROTEIN;

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AUTORECEPTORS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; RGS PROTEINS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME;

EID: 42949102005     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06208.x     Document Type: Article

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