Effects of subchronic lithium treatment on levels of BDNF, Bcl-2 and phospho-CREB in the rat hippocampus

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 356-359

  Hammonds, Michael D ^b   Shim, Seong S ^a,b,c   Feng, Pingfu ^b   Calabrese, Joseph R ^b,c  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; LITHIUM; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EXPOSURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CREB-BINDING PROTEIN; DENTATE GYRUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34247385828     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00058.x     Document Type: Article

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