Detection of Purkinje cell loss following drug exposures to developing rat pups using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis for calbindin-D28k mRNA expression

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 325-334

  Ge, Yun ^a   Belcher, Scott M ^b   Pierce, Dwight R ^c   Light, Kim E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Calbindin D28k; Cerebellum; Ethanol; mRNA; Purkinje; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CALBINDIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; RELIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL COUNT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 1942452896     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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