Single-dose and chronic corticosterone treatment alters c-Fos or FosB immunoreactivity in the rat cerebral cortex

Acta Histochemica

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-160

  Szakács, Réka ^a   Fazekas, Ildikó ^a   Mihály, András ^a   Krisztin Péva, Beáta ^a   Juhász, Anna ^a   Janka, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

C Fos; Cerebral cortex; Corticosterone; FosB; Immunohistochemistry; Rat

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALRETININ; CORTICOSTERONE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM BINDING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INDUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORTICOSTERONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; TIME FACTORS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; SESAMUM INDICUM;

EID: 75549083036     PISSN: 00651281     EISSN: 16180372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acthis.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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