Regional brain c-fos activation associated with penile erection and other symptoms induced by the spider toxin Tx2-6

Toxicon

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 202-208

  Troncone, Lanfranco R P ^a   Ravelli, Katherine G ^a   Magnoli, Fabio C ^a   Lebrun, Ivo ^a   Hipolide, Debora C ^b   Raymond, Roger ^c   Nobrega, José N ^c  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

C Fos; Penile erection; Phoneutria nigriventer; Sodium channel; Spider neurotoxin; Tx2 6

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPIDER VENOM;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA POSTREMA; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CADAVER; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; DENTATE GYRUS; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; ENVENOMATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPERSALIVATION; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS CIRCULARIS NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LATERAL PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; LATERAL PARAGIGANTOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; LETHALITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS RAPHE PALLIDUS; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PARATENIAL NUCLEUS OF THE THALAMUS; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PARIETAL CORTEX; PENIS ERECTION; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PERIPEDUNCULAR NUCLEUS; PHONEUTRIA NIGRIVENTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; PYRIFORM CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; ROTATION; SPIDER; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SYMPTOM; THALAMUS; TREMOR; VAGUS NERVE DORSAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PENILE ERECTION; PEPTIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPIDER VENOMS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; PHONEUTRIA NIGRIVENTER;

EID: 79960316980     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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