Transient postnatal thyroxine treatment leads to variation in transmitter binding site densities in the hippocampus of rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 333, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-24

  Roskoden, Thomas ^a   Zilles, Karl ^b   Schleicher, Axel ^b   Schwegler, Herbert ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aminobutyric acid; Acetylcholine; Glutamate; Quantitative receptor autoradiography; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BINDING SITES; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYROXINE;

EID: 0037110986     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00963-1     Document Type: Article

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