Central CRF neurons are not created equal: Phenotypic differences in CRF-containing neurons of the rat paraventricular hypothalamus and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 AUG, 2013, Pages

  Dabrowska, Joanna ^a   Hazra, Rimi ^a   Guo, Ji Dong ^a   DeWitt, Sarah ^a   Rainnie, Donald G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BNST; CRF; GAD67; Oxytocin; PVN; Vasopressin; VGLUT2

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; OXYTOCIN; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRIA TERMINALIS; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

EID: 84893363363     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00156     Document Type: Article

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