Correlations between angiotensinase activity asymmetries in the brain and paw preference in rats

Neuropeptides

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-259

  Wu, He ming ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Wang, Xue lian ^a   Wang, Ling ^b   Chang, Chong wang ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Gao, G D ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b No 454 Hospital of PLA   (China)

Author keywords

AlaAP; Asymmetry; CysAP; Hippocampus; Paw preferences

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSINASE; CYSTYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; MICROSOMAL AMINOPEPTIDASE; SOLUBLE ALANYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD13; CYSTINYL AMINOPEPTIDASE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77951203689     PISSN: 01434179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2009.12.016     Document Type: Article

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