Neonatal programming of rat behavior by downregulation of alpha2A-adrenoreceptor gene expression in the brain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 409-414

  Dygalo, Nikolay N ^a   Kalinina, Tatyana S ^a   Shishkina, Galina T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alpha2A adrenergic receptor; Antisense oligonucleotide; Behavior; Early life programming; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2A ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 57649217283     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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