Impact of the COMT Val 108/158Met polymorphism on the mu-opioid receptor system in the human brain: Mu-opioid receptor, met-enkephalin and beta-endorphin expression

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 506, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 214-219

  Kowarik, Markus C ^a   Einhäuser, Julia ^a   Jochim, Burkard ^a   Büttner, Andreas ^b   Tölle, Thomas R ^a   Riemenschneider, Matthias ^c   Platzer, Stefan ^a   Berthele, Achim ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta endorphin; COMT polymorphism; Enkephalin; Human brain; Mu opioid receptor expression

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; LIGAND; METENKEPHALIN; METHIONINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; VALINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BINDING AFFINITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; ENKEPHALINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU;

EID: 84655160765     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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