Striatum brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels are decreased in dystrophin-deficient mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 459, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 66-68

  Comim, Clarissa M ^a   Tuon, Lisiane ^a   Stertz, Laura ^b   Vainzof, Mariz ^c   Kapczinski, Flávio ^b   Quevedo, João ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia Translacional em Medicina   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Tuberculose INCT TB   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

BDNF; Central nervous system; mdx mice

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DYSTROPHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURKINJE CELL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DYSTROPHIN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 66049092653     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.04.065     Document Type: Article

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