Endocannabinoids link feeding state and auditory perception-related gene expression

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 44, 2004, Pages 10013-10021

  Soderstrom, Ken ^a   Tian, Qiyu ^a   Valenti, Marta ^b   Di Marzo, Vincenzo Di ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory; Cannabinoid; CB1 receptor antibody; Feeding; Songbird; Telencephalon

Indexed keywords

2 ARACHIDONYL GLYCEROL; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLYCEROL DERIVATIVE; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; RIMONABANT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZENK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HEARING; LEARNING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGING; TELENCEPHALON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; FINCHES; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PIPERIDINES; PYRAZOLES; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; TELENCEPHALON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 7744225764     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3298-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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