Localization of sepiapterin reductase in the human brain

Brain Research

Volumn 954, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 237-246

  Ikemoto, Keiko ^a,b,c   Suzuki, Takahiro ^a   Ichinose, Hiroshi ^a   Ohye, Tamae ^a   Nishimura, Akiyoshi ^b   Nishi, Katsuji ^b   Nagatsu, Ikuko ^a   Nagatsu, Toshiharu ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c National Hospital Organization Hanamaki Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human; Immunohistochemistry; Monoamine; Sepiapterin reductase; Tetrahydrobiopterin; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; MONOAMINE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SEPIAPTERIN REDUCTASE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RABBIT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; PONS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0037044859     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03341-3     Document Type: Article

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