The metabolic regulator PGC-1α directly controls the expression of the hypothalamic neuropeptide oxytocin

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 42, 2011, Pages 14835-14840

  Blechman, Janna ^a   Amir Zilberstein, Liat ^a   Gutnick, Amos ^a   Ben Dor, Shifra ^a   Levkowitz, Gil ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PGC 1ALPHA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ZEBRA FISH;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FASTING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OXYTOCIN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 80054757880     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1798-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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