Dorsomedial hypothalamus mediates autonomic, neuroendocrine, and locomotor responses evoked from the medial preoptic area

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hunt, Joseph L ^a   Zaretsky, Dmitry V ^a   Sarkar, Sumit ^a   DiMicco, Joseph A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Body temperature; Heart rate; Paraventricular nucleus; Rats

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; MUSCIMOL; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MICROINJECTION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; GABA AGONISTS; HEART RATE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCIMOL; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PREOPTIC AREA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 73549113527     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00574.2009     Document Type: Article

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