Oxytocin and vasopressin gene expression and RNA splicing patterns in the rat supraoptic nucleus

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 231-242

  Yue, Chunmei ^a   Ponzio, Todd A ^a   Fields, Raymond L ^a   Gainer, Harold ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Intron retention; Real time polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTRON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; STEADY STATE; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; VASOPRESSINS;

RATTUS;

EID: 57349170697     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.90218.2008     Document Type: Article

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