Brain-specific conditional and time-specific inducible Tph2 knockout mice possess normal serotonergic gene expression in the absence of serotonin during adult life

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 512-517

  Kriegebaum, Claudia ^a   Song, Ning Ning ^b   Gutknecht, Lise ^a   Huang, Ying ^b   Schmitt, Angelika ^a   Reif, Andreas ^a   Ding, Yu Qiang ^b   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Mouse model; Serotonin system; Time specific Tph2 knockout

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77956230326     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2010.06.015     Document Type: Article

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