Electroconvulsive shock increases serotonin transporter in the rat frontal cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 170-172

  Shen, Hao Wei ^a,b   Numachi, Yohtaro ^a   Yoshida, Sumiko ^a   Fujiyama, Ko ^a   Toda, Shigenobu ^a   Awata, Shuichi ^a   Matsuoka, Hiroo ^a   Sato, Mitsumoto ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive shock; Frontal cortex; Hippocampus; Raphe nucleus; Serotonin transporter; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0037402498     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00178-2     Document Type: Article

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