Rat brain thioltransferase: Regional distribution, immunological characterization, and localization by fluorescent in situ hybridization

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1170-1178

  Balijepalli, Sadguna ^a   Tirumalai, P S ^a   Swamy, K V ^a   Boyd, M R ^b   Mieyal, J J ^c   Ravindranath, Vijayalakshmi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Glutaredoxin; Glutathione; Oxidative stress; Thiol disulfide oxidoreductase; Thioltransferase

Indexed keywords

OXIDOREDUCTASE; THIOLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OLFACTORY BULB; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; CYSTEINE; CYTOSOL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; LIVER; MALE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN DISULFIDE REDUCTASE (GLUTATHIONE); RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SWINE; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032972685     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.0721170.x     Document Type: Article

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