Gender-specific effect of mthfr genotype and neonatal vigabatrin interaction on synaptic proteins in mouse cortex

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1714-1728

  Blumkin, Elinor ^a   Levav Rabkin, Tamar ^a   Melamed, Osnat ^a   Galron, Dalia ^a   Golan, Hava M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

cerebral cortex; FMR1; GluR1; reelin; sociability

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2; 5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GEPHYRIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; REELIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VIGABATRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA METHYLATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNAPSE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROTEIN BINDING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; VIGABATRIN;

EID: 79958865924     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.52     Document Type: Article

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