The synaptic-vesicle-specific proteins rab3a and synaptophysin are reduced in thalamus and related cortical brain regions in schizophrenic brains

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-29

  Davidsson, Pia ^a   Gottfries, Johan ^b   Bogdanovic, Nenad ^c   Ekman, Rolf ^a   Karlsson, Ingvar ^a   Gottfries, Carl Gerhard ^a   Blennow, Kaj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cortical brain regions; rab3a; Schizophrenia; Synaptophysin; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; THALAMUS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RAB3A GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032887134     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-9964(99)00037-7     Document Type: Article

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