Tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA is increased in old age and norepinephrine uptake transporter mRNA is decreased in middle age in locus coeruleus of Brown-Norway rats

Brain Research

Volumn 826, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 143-147

  Shores, Molly M ^a,b   White, Sylvia S ^b   Veith, Richard C ^a,b   Patricia Szot, ^a,b  

^a Geriatric Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Brown Norway rat; Locus coeruleus; Norepinephrine transporter; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS COERULEUS; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHOSPHORUS RADIOISOTOPES; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SYMPORTERS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0033599781     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01200-7     Document Type: Article

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