Differences in the developmental expression of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter and choline acetyltransferase in the rat brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-110

  Holler, Thomas ^a   Berse, Brygida ^a   Cermak, Jennifer Marie ^a   Diebler, Marie Françoise ^b   Blusztajn, Jan Krzysztof ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE NEUROBIOLOGIE CELLULAIRE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Brain; Choline acetyltransferase; Cholinergic; Development; Northern blot; Rat; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter; Western blot

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE LOCATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 0030581099     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12808-1     Document Type: Article

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