Expression of endocannabinoid synthetic enzyme mRNAs is correlated with cannabinoid 1 receptor mRNA in the mouse brain

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 45-50

  Tsuyama, Shoichiro ^a   Oikawa, Daichi ^a   Yamasaki, Yasuko ^a   Takagi, Sayuri ^a   Ando, Hironori ^a   Furuse, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 AG; Anandamide; Arachidonic acid; Endocannabinoid; Real time RT PCR

Indexed keywords

2 ARACHIDONOYLGLYCEROL; ACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; ANANDAMIDE; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; ENDOCANNABINOID; FATTY ACID AMIDASE; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE D;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARACHIDONIC ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PHOSPHOLIPASE D; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; RECEPTORS, CANNABINOID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

MUS;

EID: 34247599311     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10284150701250671     Document Type: Article

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