Nutritional state-dependent ghrelin activation of vasopressin neurons via retrograde trans-neuronal-glial stimulation of excitatory GABA circuits

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6201-6213

  Haam, Juhee ^a   Halmos, Katalin C ^a   Di, Shi ^a   Tasker, Jeffrey G ^a,b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; ATP; Ghrelin; Hypothalamus; Paraventricular nucleus; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; PURINERGIC P2X RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL STIMULATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLIA CELL; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ASTROCYTE; ATP; GHRELIN; HYPOTHALAMUS; PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; VASOPRESSIN;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GHRELIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; TETRODOTOXIN; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 84899633847     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3178-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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