Stress-induced changes in tyrosine hydroxylase gene expression in rat hypothalamic paraventricular, periventricular, and dorsomedial nuclei

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 74-85

  Kiss, Alexander ^a   Mravec, Boris ^a,b   Palkovits, Miklos ^c   Kvetňanský, Richard ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Brain stem transections; Hypothalamic nuclei; Immobilization stress; Rat; Tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN STEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPINAL CORD; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

RATTUS;

EID: 57749098655     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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