Altered gene expressions in rat hippocampus after kainate injection with or without melatonin pre-treatment

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 359, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 65-68

  Yalcin, Ayfer ^a   Kanit, Lütfiye ^a   Sozmen, Eser Y ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Kainic acid; Melatonin; mRNA; Real time polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; MELATONIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; THIOREDOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MELATONIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 1842608897     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.02.013     Document Type: Article

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