Expression of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript in the rat forebrain during postnatal development

Neuroscience

Volumn 195, Issue , 2011, Pages 201-214

  Rodrigues, B C ^a   Cavalcante, J C ^a,b   Elias, C F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Hippocampus; Somatosensory cortex; Thalamus; Ventral premammillary nucleus

Indexed keywords

COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 80053560496     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.08.036     Document Type: Article

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