Unique responses of midbrain CART neurons in macaques to ovarian steroids

Brain Research

Volumn 1227, Issue , 2008, Pages 76-88

  Lima, F B ^a   Henderson, J A ^a   Reddy, A P ^a   Tokuyama, Y ^a   Hubert, G W ^b   Kuhar, M J ^b   Bethea, C L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine and amphetamineregulated transcript (CART); Edinger Westphal nucleus; Estrogen; Progesterone; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID HORMONE; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; UROCORTIN I;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DRUG EFFECT; EDINGER WESTPHAL NUCLEUS; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MACACA; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA MULATTA; MESENCEPHALON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROGESTERONE; RAPHE NUCLEI; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 48949093672     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.05.078     Document Type: Article

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