Methacarn as a whole brain fixative for gene and protein expression analyses of specific brain regions in rats

Journal of Toxicological Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 431-443

  Akane, Hirotoshi ^a   Saito, Fumiyo ^b   Yamanaka, Hidenori ^b   Shiraki, Ayako ^c   Imatanaka, Nobuya ^b   Akahori, Yumi ^b   Morita, Reiko ^c   Mitsumori, Kunitoshi ^a   Shibutani, Makoto ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CHEMICALS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Methacarn; Microarray analysis; Proteome analysis; Specific brain region; Tissue sampling

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; ALPHA CASEIN; ALPHA ENOLASE; CHLOROFORM; FIXATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; METHACARN; METHANOL; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE; POLYPEPTIDE; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUNCH BIOPSY; RAT;

EID: 84877780865     PISSN: 03881350     EISSN: 18803989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2131/jts.38.431     Document Type: Article

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