A subset of presympathetic-premotor neurons within the centrally projecting Edinger-Westphal nucleus expresses urocortin-1

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-35

  Shah, Najmul S ^a   Pugh, Phyllis C ^a   Nam, Hyungwoo ^a   Rosenthal, Devin T ^b   van Wijk, Diane ^c   Gaszner, Balazs ^d   Kozicz, Tamas ^c   Kerman, Ilan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Boston Biomedical Research Group   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Adrenal gland; Muscle; Pseudorabies virus; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; UROCORTIN I;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDINGER WESTPHAL NUCLEUS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRESYMPATHETIC PREMOTOR NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADRENAL GLAND; MUSCLE; PSEUDORABIES VIRUS; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE NET; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UROCORTINS;

EID: 84884157832     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: 18736300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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