A Gene-Environment Study of Cytoglobin in the Human and Rat Hippocampus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Hundahl, Christian Ansgar ^a,c   Elfving, Betina ^b   Müller, Heidi Kaastrup ^b   Hay Schmidt, Anders ^c   Wegener, Gregers ^b,d  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Estonia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOGLOBIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYGB GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOS GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; GLOBINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 84877826105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063288     Document Type: Article

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