Effects of phenelzine and imipramine on the steady-state levels of mRNAs that encode glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD67 and GAD65), the GABA transporter GAT-1 and GABA transaminase in rat cortex

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 32-38

  Lai, Chien Tsai ^a   Tanay, Véronique A M I ^b   Charrois, Gregory J R ^b   Baker, Glen B ^a   Bateson, Alan N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

GABA; GABA transaminase; GABA transporter; Gene expression; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Imipramine; MRNA; Phenelzine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMIPRAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; PHENELZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INFUSION; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STEADY STATE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0031950855     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005135     Document Type: Article

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