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Relationship of presympathetic-premotor neurons to the serotonergic transmitter system in the rat brainstem
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-12-20)
Numerous physiological conditions and emotionally motivated behaviors require concomitant activation of somatomotor and sympathetic efferents. Using a virally mediated retrograde transsynaptic tract-tracing approach, we ...
Peptide F (pro-enkephalin fragment) : Radioimmunoassay, and stress-induced changes in adrenal
(Elsevier, 2006-04-07)
Utilizing a nine amino-acid (Asp-Glu-Leu-Tyr-Pro-Leu-Glu-Val-Glu) non-enkephalin containing fragment of Peptide F from the pro-enkephalin molecule, a radioimmunoassay was developed. Extraction of bovine, rat, and guinea ...
Plasma beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity, self reported pain perception and anxiety levels in women during pregnancy and labor
(Elsevier, 2006-04-07)
Plasma Beta-endorphin (B-END) immunoreactivity was measured in 19 men, 16 women at midcycle, and ten pregnant women at various points in their pregnancies. There is a significant difference between the levels measured in ...
Pulse-chase studies of the POMC/Beta-endorphin system in the pituitary of acutely and chronically stressed rats
(Elsevier, 2006-04-07)
Experiments were carried out to determine whether stress induces biochemical changes in the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) system in anterior (AL) and intermediate-posterior lobe (IPL) of rat. In a series of pulse-chase ...
Dynorphin is located throughout the CNS and is often co-localized with alpha-neo-endorphin
(Elsevier, 2006-04-07)
The opioid peptide dynorphin has been described as widely distributed in CNS when measured by RIA. Our previous immunohistochemical studies have only demonstrated dynorphin cells as those containing AVP. We now report the ...
Colocalization of estrogen β-receptor messenger RNA with orphanin FQ, vasopressin and oxytocin in the rat hypothalamic paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei
(Springer-Verlag, 2003-05)
The functional significance of the novel estrogen receptor β in brain areas that exclusively contain the ERβ receptor subtype such as the paraventricular (PVN) and the supraoptic (SON) nuclei of the hypothalamus is not yet ...
Dynorphin (1-17): Lack of analgesia but evidence for non-opiate electrophysiological and motor effects
(Elsevier, 2006-04-07)
Dynorphin and an opiate-inactive fragment des-Tyr-dynorphin produced similar effects on EEG, motor function and hippocampal unit firing. Naloxone had no effect on the actions of dynorphin in these systems and dynorphin ...
Diurnal rhythmic expression of the rhythm-related genes, rPeriod1, rPeriod2, and rClock , in the rat brain
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; National Science Council, Taipei ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2005-01)
High densities of the mRNA of three rhythm-related genes, rPeriod1 (rPer1), rPer2 , and rClock , which share high homology in Drosophila and mammals, are found in the rat hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The ...
Nociceptin/orphanin FQ and opioid receptor-like receptor mRNA expression in dopamine systems
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002-03-19)
Although nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) influences dopamine (DA) neuronal activity, it is not known whether N/OFQ acts directly on DA neurons, indirectly by means of local circuitry, or both. We used two parallel approaches, ...
Selective Breeding for Divergence in Novelty-seeking Traits: Heritability and Enrichment in Spontaneous Anxiety-related Behaviors
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-02-24)
Outbred Sprague–Dawley rats can be classified as high responders (HR) or low responders (LR) based on their levels of exploratory locomotion in a novel environment. While this novelty-seeking dimension was originally related ...