Molecular dissection of the amygdala and its relevance to autism

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 282-294

  Zirlinger, M ^a,b   Anderson, D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affymetrix; Animal model; Chips; In situ hybridization; LCM; Validation

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LASER; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE MICROARRAY HYBRIDIZATION; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LASERS; MICE; MICRODISSECTION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0242291086     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1601-183X.2003.00039.x     Document Type: Article

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