Cytosolic branched chain aminotransferase (BCATc) mRNA is up-regulated in restricted brain areas of BDNF transgenic mice

Brain Research

Volumn 1108, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-18

  Castellano, Stefania ^a   Macchi, Francesca ^a   Scali, Manuela ^a   Huang, Josh Z ^b   Bozzi, Yuri ^a  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Cerebral cortex; Development; Hippocampus; Metabolism; Neurotrophin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID AMINOTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTROPHIN; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELENCEPHALON; UPREGULATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSAMINASES; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33747773343     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.012     Document Type: Article

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