GABAA α1 and α2 receptor subunit expression in rostral ventrolateral medulla in nonpregnant and pregnant rats

Brain Research

Volumn 975, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 196-206

  Foley, C Michael ^a   Stanton, Jeffery J ^a   Price, Elmer M ^a   Cunningham, J Thomas ^b   Hasser, Eileen M ^a   Heesch, Cheryl M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive RT PCR; Gene expression; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; RVLM; Western blot analysis; Aminobutyric acid receptor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALPHA1 SUBUNIT, GABA A RECEPTOR; ALPHA1 SUBUNIT, GABA-A RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREEDING; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0038404777     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(03)02635-0     Document Type: Article

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