The serotonin transporter messenger RNA level in rat brain is not regulated by antidepressants

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1177-1180

  Koed, Karen ^a   Linnet, Kristian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Messenger RNA; Raphe nuclei; Rat; Serotonin transporter; Serum concentration levels

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; TIANEPTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SCREENING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARRIER PROTEINS; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; THIAZEPINES;

EID: 0031574302     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(97)00345-4     Document Type: Article

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