Immediate-early gene response to repeated immobilization: Fos protein and arc mRNA levels appear to be less sensitive than c-fos mRNA to adaptation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2043-2052

  Ons, Sheila ^a   Rotllant, David ^a   Marín Blasco, Ignacio J ^a   Armario, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Chronic stress; Paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN FOS; ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FLI 1;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; GENETICS; IMMOBILIZATION; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEIN C-FLI-1; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953182692     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07242.x     Document Type: Article

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