Endothelin B receptor deficient transgenic rescue rats: A rescue phenomenon in the brain

Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 719-723

  Riechers, C C ^a   Knabe, W ^b   Siren A L ^a   Gariepy, C E ^c   Yanagisawa, M ^c   Ehrenreich, H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

3,3 diaminobenzidine tetrahydrochloride; Apoptosis; Base pair; Bp; D H; DAB; Dentate gyrus; Dopamine hydroxylase; Dopamine hydroxylase promoter; Endothelin B receptor; ETB receptor; Transgene expression

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; ENDOTHELIN B RECEPTOR; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADRENERGIC NERVE CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAINING; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RECEPTOR, ENDOTHELIN B; RNA, MESSENGER; SALVAGE THERAPY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 1542321123     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2003.10.023     Document Type: Article

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