Effects of hypergravity on histamine H1 receptor mRNA expression in hypothalamus and brainstem of rats: Implications for development of motion sickness

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-51

  Sato, Go ^a   Uno, Atsuhiko ^b   Horii, Arata ^b   Umehara, Hayato ^a   Kitamura, Yoshiaki ^a   Sekine, Kazunori ^a   Tamura, Koichi ^a   Fukui, Hiroyuki ^a   Takeda, Noriaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brainstem; H1 receptor; Histamine; Hypothalamus; Kaolin; Mepyramine; Motion sickness; Terfenadine; Zolantidine

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR; KAOLIN; MEPYRAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; TERFINADINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZOLANTIZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GRAVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; LABYRINTHECTOMY; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; NONHUMAN; PICA; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERGRAVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOTION SICKNESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, HISTAMINE H1; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 58149099884     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480802008173     Document Type: Article

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