Upregulation of connexins 30 and 32 gap junctions in rat hippocampus at transcription level by chronic central injection of lipopolysaccharide

Iranian Biomedical Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 127-132

  Abbasian, Mohammad ^a,b   Sayyah, Mohammad ^b   Babapour, Vahab ^c   Mahdian, Reza ^b   Choopani, Samira ^b   Kaviani, Bahar ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Connexin 30; Connexin 32; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 30; CONNEXIN 32; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CX30 GENE; CX32 GENE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CONNEXINS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 84871838071     PISSN: 1028852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6091/ibj.1099.2012     Document Type: Article

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