NMDA receptor subunit gene expression in the rat brain: A quantitative analysis of endogenous mRNA levels of NR1(Com), NR2A, NR2B, NR2C, NR2D and NR3A

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 164-170

  Goebel, Dennis J ^a   Poosch, Michael S ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; NMDA subunit; Nuclease protection assay

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NUCLEASE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; RNA ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER;

MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS;

EID: 0033013541     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(99)00100-X     Document Type: Article

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