GABA concentration and GABAergic neuron populations in limbic areas are differentially altered by brain serotonin deficiency in Tph2 knockout mice

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 267-281

  Waider, Jonas ^a   Proft, Florian ^a   Langlhofer, Georg ^a   Asan, Esther ^a   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^a   Gutknecht, Lise ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNOMIQUE FONCTIONNELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Development; GABA; Knockout; Serotonin; Tph2; Tryptophan hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PARVALBUMIN; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE 2; TPH2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; EMOTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOTYPE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; METABOLISM;

MUS;

ANIMALS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 84876707550     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: 1432119X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-012-1029-x     Document Type: Article

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