Genetic variations in the serotonin transporter gene-linked polymorphic region influence attraction for a favorite person and the associated interactions between the central nervous and immune systems

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 468, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 211-215

  Matsunaga, Masahiro ^a,b   Murakami, Hiroki ^c   Yamakawa, Kaori ^c   Isowa, Tokiko ^d   Kasugai, Kunio ^b   Yoneda, Masashi ^b   Kaneko, Hiroshi ^a   Fukuyama, Seisuke ^e,f   Shinoda, Jun ^e   Yamada, Jitsuhiro ^e   Ohira, Hideki ^c  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY BANTANE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b School of Medicine   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Kizawa Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^f KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

5HTTLPR; Amygdala; Attraction; NK cell; Positron emission tomography (PET)

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTRACTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; JAPANESE; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PULVINAR;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; EMOTIONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; OXYGEN RADIOISOTOPES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; WATER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72249088608     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.093     Document Type: Article

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