The alpha2-adrenoceptors do not modify the activity of tyrosine hydroxylase, corticoliberine, and neuropeptide Y producing hypothalamic magnocellular neurons in the long evans and brattleboro rats

Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 391-398

  Bundzikova, J ^a   Pirnik, Z ^a   Zelena, D ^b   Mikkelsen, J D ^c   Kiss, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

2 adrenoceptors; Brattleboro rats; Corticoliberine; Fos immunohistochemistry; Neuropeptide Y; Paraventricular nucleus; Supraoptic nucleus; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ATIPAMEZOLE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROTEIN FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOPRESSIN; XYLAZINE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRATTLEBORO RAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPEROSMOLALITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG EVANS RAT; MAGNOCELLULAR NEURON; MALE; MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OSMOSIS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, BRATTLEBORO; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 77957101122     PISSN: 08675910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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