Differential regulation of catechol-O-methyltransferase expression in a mouse model of aggression

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 347-356

  Ginsberg, Stephen D ^a   Che, Shaoli ^a   Hashim, Audrey ^b   Zavadil, Jiri ^c   Cancro, Robert ^a   Lee, Sang H ^b   Petkova, Eva ^a,b   Sershen, Henry W ^a,b   Volavka, Jan ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Midbrain; QPCR; Resident intruder; Social defeat; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOWN REGULATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPREGULATION;

AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84655167958     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-011-0315-z     Document Type: Article

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