Quantitation of tyrosine hydroxylase protein in the locus coeruleus from postmortem human brain

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 99, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 37-44

  Zhu, Meng Yang ^a   Klimek, Violetta ^a   Haycock, John W ^b   Ordway, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunoblotting; Locus coeruleus; Norepinephrine neuron; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ANTIBODY; IODINE 125; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN LEVEL; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCUS CERULEUS; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; LOCUS COERULEUS; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0034733466     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00211-9     Document Type: Article

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