Suppression of serotonin N-acetyltransferase transcription and melatonin secretion from chicken pinealocytes transfected with Bmal1 antisense oligonucleotides containing locked nucleic acid in superfusion system

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 249, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 84-91

  Rekasi, Zoltan ^a   Horvath, Reka A ^a   Klausz, Barbara ^a   Nagy, Eniko ^a   Toller, Gabor L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Arylalkylamine N acetyltransferase (Aanat); Clock gene; Locked nucleic acid (LNA); Pineal gland; RT PCR; Transfection

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; ARALKYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; INDOLE; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; MELATONIN; PROTEIN BMAL1; RIBONUCLEASE H; SEROTONIN N ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PINEALOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ARYLALKYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHICKENS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MELATONIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PINEAL GLAND; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33645856492     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2006.01.012     Document Type: Article

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