Effects on the serotoninergic system in sub-acute transmissible spongiform encephalopathies: Current data, hypotheses, suggestions for experimentation

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 910-918

  Ledoux, Jean Marie ^a  

^a DVM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; BETA CATENIN; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; WNT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONFORMATION; DEREGULATION; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRECURSOR; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETROVIRUS; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPASTIC PARESIS; SYNAPSE;

EID: 15244350855     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.11.020     Document Type: Article

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