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. II. Effects on p75 and trk receptor expression

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 307-313

  Roskoden, Thomas ^a   Heese, Klaus ^b   Otten, Uwe ^b   Schwegler, Herbert ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; p75 receptor; Rat; RT PCR; Septum; Thyroid hormone; trkA; trkB; trkC

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOSSY FIBER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; THYROXINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032794256     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050800     Document Type: Article

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