Evidence for transcriptional factor dysregulation in the dorsal raphe nucleus of patients with major depressive disorder

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Kerman, Ilan A ^a   Bernard, René ^b   Bunney, William E ^c   Jones, Edward G ^d   Schatzberg, Alan F ^e   Myers, Richard M ^f   Barchas, Jack D ^g   Akil, Huda ^h   Watson, Stanley J ^h   Thompson, Robert C ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Gene expression; Laser capture microdissection; Microarray; Postmortem; Real time PCR; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ADRENOMEDULLIN; CD69 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR7; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NR4A3; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; REDUCED FOLATE CARRIER; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRESS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EMOTION; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LASER CAPTURE MICRODISSECTION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84870877404     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00135     Document Type: Article

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