The effects of p-chloroamphetamine, methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) on the gene expression of cytoskeletal proteins in the rat brain

Addiction Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-80

  Putzke, Jörg ^a,d   Spina, Mariarosa G ^a   Büchler, Jochen ^b   Kovar, Karl Artur ^b   Wolf, Gerald ^a   Smalla, Karl Heinz ^c  

^a OvG University   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d PAREXEL INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA); Cytoskeleton; Gene expression; Methamphetamine; P chloroamphetamine (PCA); Toxicity

Indexed keywords

3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; BENZENE; BETA ACTIN; BRAIN PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHETAMINE; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; HALOGEN; METHAMPHETAMINE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DOSE RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LETHALITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; N-METHYL-3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE; P-CHLOROAMPHETAMINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947106580     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2006.00047.x     Document Type: Article

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