Up-regulation of immunolabeled α(2A)-adrenoceptors, G(i) coupling proteins, and regulatory receptor kinases in the prefrontal cortex of depressed suicides

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 282-291

  García Sevilla, Jesús A ^a   Escribá, Pablo V ^a   Ozaita, Andrés ^a   La Harpe, Romano ^b   Walzer, Claude ^b   Eytan, Ariel ^b   Guimón, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b Universitat de les Illes Balears ^*

Author keywords

(2A) Adrenoceptors; Depression; G protein coupled receptor kinase; G proteins; Human brain; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALPHA 2A ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; INHIBITORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MIRTAZAPINE; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SUICIDE;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, GI-GO; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SUICIDE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0345391014     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.0720282.x     Document Type: Article

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