Changes with aging and ischemia in nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit α7 mRNA expression in postmortem human frontal cortex and putamen

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 145-148

  Utsugisawa, Kimiaki ^a   Nagane, Yuriko ^a   Tohgi, Hideo ^a   Yoshimura, Masahiro ^b   Ohba, Hideki ^a   Genda, Yasuko ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kyoto Municipal University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Cerebral cortex; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit 7; Putamen; Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; Status lacunaris

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CADAVER; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PUTAMEN; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REFERENCE VALUES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033529754     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00473-5     Document Type: Article

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