Expression of brain and platelet serotonin transporters in sublines of rats with constitutionally altered serotonin homeostasis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 369, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-49

  Bordukalo Niksic, Tatjana ^a   Cicin Sain, Lipa ^a   Jernej, Branimir ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Genetic selection; Platelets; Rat brain; Semi quantitative RT PCR; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BRAIN; HOMEOSTASIS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 5644292078     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.07.039     Document Type: Article

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