Title : Nicotine-induced cFos expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus is dependent on brainstem effects: correlations with cFos in catecholaminergic and noncatecholaminergic neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius.

Pub. Date : 1996 Feb

PMID : 8593811






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1 Systemically administered nicotine elicits ACTH release indirectly by acting on neurons in brainstem catecholaminergic regions known to send afferent projections to the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN), the site of CRH neurons involved in initiating ACTH secretion. Nicotine corticotropin releasing hormone Rattus norvegicus