Serine racemase is predominantly localized in neurons in mouse brain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 510, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 641-654

  Miya, Kazushi ^a   Inoue, Ran ^a   Takata, Yoshimi ^a   Abe, Manabu ^b   Natsume, Rie ^b   Sakimura, Kenji ^b   Hongou, Kazuhisa ^a   Miyawaki, Toshio ^a   Mori, Hisashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; D serine; Hippocampus; Knockout mouse; NMDA receptor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; DEXTRO SERINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE DEHYDROGENASE; RACEMASE; SERINE RACEMASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMBRYO; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURKINJE CELL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; RACEMASES AND EPIMERASES; SERINE;

EID: 53149109731     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21822     Document Type: Article

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