Serotonin transporter (SERT) mRNA and binding site densities in male rat brain affected by sex steroids

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 241-247

  McQueen, Judith K ^a   Wilson, Helen ^a   Sumner, Barbara E H ^a   Fink, George ^a  

^a ROYAL EDINBURGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 hydroxytryptamine; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Estrogen; Serotonin transporter; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; ANDROSTANOLONE; ARACHIS OIL; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTOXIN; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; ARACHIS HYPOGAEA; BINDING SITES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARRIER PROTEINS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PLANT OILS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STEROIDS; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; ARACHIS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; TRITIUM;

EID: 0033534421     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00281-2     Document Type: Article

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