Long-term food restriction down-regulates the density of serotonin transporters in the rat frontal cortex

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1174-1180

  Huether, Gerald ^a   Zhou, Dan ^a   Schmidt, Sabine ^a   Wiltfang, Jens ^a   Rüther, Eckart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anorexia; Eating disorders; Food restriction; Paroxetine binding; Serotonin transporter; Starvation

Indexed keywords

PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DOWN REGULATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CARRIER PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MEMBRANES; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PAROXETINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STARVATION;

EID: 0030927582     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(96)00265-X     Document Type: Article

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