Title : A role for nitric oxide in the median eminence and arcuate nucleus response to capsaicin treatment in rats.

Pub. Date : 1999 Apr 26

PMID : 10363926






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1 Fos expression was increased in the ARC after capsaicin injection compared with vehicle-treated rats. Capsaicin Fos proto-oncogene, AP-1 transcription factor subunit Rattus norvegicus
2 Pretreatment with the NO synthase (NOS) inhibitor, N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) attenuated the effect of capsaicin on Fos expression and NADPH-d reactivity in the ARC-ME in comparison with rats injected with D-NAME, the inactive stereoisomer of L-NAME. Capsaicin Fos proto-oncogene, AP-1 transcription factor subunit Rattus norvegicus