Modulation of mRNA expression of the neurotrophins of the nerve growth factor family and their receptors in the septum and hippocampus of rats after transient postnatal thyroxine treatment. I. Expression of nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, neurotrophin-3, and neurotrophin 4 mRNA

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-8

  Lüesse, Hans Gerd ^a   Roskoden, Thomas ^a   Linke, Rüdiger ^a   Otten, Uwe ^b   Heese, Klaus ^b   Schwegler, Herbert ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Neurotrophins; Rat; Septum; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MODULATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOSSY FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DNA; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROXINE;

EID: 0031917592     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050313     Document Type: Article

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