Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus
"Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A nucleus of the middle hypothalamus, the largest cell group of the tuberal region with small-to-medium size cells.
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D014697
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.186.211.464.497.352.953 A08.186.211.730.317.357.352.953
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus" by people in Profiles.
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Northrop LE, Polston EK, Erskine MS. Noradrenergic nuclei that receive sensory input during mating and project to the ventromedial hypothalamus play a role in mating-induced pseudopregnancy in the female rat. J Neuroendocrinol. 2010 Oct; 22(10):1061-71.
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Jia Y, El-Haddad M, Gendy A, Nguyen T, Ross MG. Serotonin-induced region-specific responses of the arcuate and ventromedial hypothalamic nuclei. Int J Neurosci. 2010 May; 120(5):386-95.
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Patisaul HB, Fortino AE, Polston EK. Sex differences in serotonergic but not gamma-aminobutyric acidergic (GABA) projections to the rat ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus. Endocrinology. 2008 Jan; 149(1):397-408.
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Polston EK, Heitz M, Barnes W, Cardamone K, Erskine MS. NMDA-mediated activation of the medial amygdala initiates a downstream neuroendocrine memory responsible for pseudopregnancy in the female rat. J Neurosci. 2001 Jun 01; 21(11):4104-10.
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Phelix CF, Adai DM, Cantu C, Chen H, Wayner MJ. Immunohistochemical demonstration of serotonin-containing axons in the hypothalamus of the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus. Brain Res. 1998 Oct 19; 808(2):197-219.
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Qui?ones-Jenab V, Zhang C, Jenab S, Brown HE, Pfaff DW. Anesthesia during hormone administration abolishes the estrogen induction of preproenkephalin mRNA in ventromedial hypothalamus of female rats. Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 1996 Jan; 35(1-2):297-303.
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Allen DL, Renner KJ, Luine VN. Pargyline-induced increase in serotonin levels: correlation with inhibition of lordosis in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1993 Aug; 45(4):837-41.
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Luine VN. Serotonin, catecholamines and metabolites in discrete brain areas in relation to lordotic responding on proestrus. Neuroendocrinology. 1993 May; 57(5):946-54.
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Eaton MJ, Moss RL. Electrophysiological evidence for an excitatory amino acid projection from the ventromedial hypothalamus to the medial zona incerta. Synapse. 1990; 5(1):77-9.