Activity of brain stem groups of catecholaminergic cells in tumor-bearing rats: Response to immobilization stress

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 141-147

  Pirnik, Zdenko ^a   Bundzikova, Jana ^a   Bizik, Jozef ^b   Hulin, Ivan ^c   Kiss, Alexander ^a   Mravec, Boris ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^c NONE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Brain stem noradrenergic cell groups; Fos immunohistochemistry; Neurobiology of cancer; Rats; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN STEM; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 57649223729     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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