Short-term cold exposure activates TRH neurons exclusively in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus and raphe pallidus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 518, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 86-91

  Cabral, Agustina ^a   Valdivia, Spring ^a   Reynaldo, Mirta ^a   Cyr, Nicole E ^b   Nillni, Eduardo A ^b,c   Perello, Mario ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C Fos; Hypothalamus; ProTRH; Stress; Ventral medulla

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS; PROTIRELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS RAPHE PALLIDUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THERMOGENESIS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 84861677749     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.04.059     Document Type: Article

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