Acute nicotine activates c-fos and activity-regulated cytoskeletal associated protein mRNA expression in limbic brain areas involved in the central stress-response in rat pups during a period of hypo-responsiveness to stress

Neuroscience

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 349-359

  Schmitt, H F ^a   Huang, L Z ^a   Son, J H ^a   Pinzon Guzman, C ^a   Slaton, G S ^a   Winzer Serhan, U H ^a  

^a Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; anxiety; development; hypothalamus; nicotinic; SNRP

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINE; NICOTINE TARTRATE; PROTEIN C FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS; STRIA TERMINALIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 55949083928     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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