Detection of β-endorphin in the cerebrospinal fluid after intrastriatal microinjection into the rat brain

Brain Research

Volumn 1041, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-180

  Höistad, Malin ^a   Samskog, Jenny ^a   Jacobsen, Kirsten X ^b   Olsson, Annika ^a   Hansson, Hans Arne ^c   Brodin, Ernst ^a   Fuxe, Kjell ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Intraparenchymal injections; Mass spectrometry; Migration; Radioimmunoassay; Volume transmission

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CATHETER; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIFFUSION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 17044398911     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.02.014     Document Type: Article

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