Plasticity of tyrosine hydroxylase gene expression within BALB/C and C57black/6 mouse locus coeruleus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 77-80

  Marcel, D ^a   Raison, S ^a   Bezin, L ^a   Pujol, J F ^a   Weissmann, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Hybridization; Mouse locus coeruleus; Tyrosine hydroxylase gene expression

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VINDEBURNOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VINCAMINE;

EID: 0032512788     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00028-7     Document Type: Article

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