Antioxidant enzyme, 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase-knockout mice exhibit increased anxiety-like behaviors: A model for human mercaptolactate- cysteine disulfiduria

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nagahara, Noriyuki ^a   Nagano, Masatoshi ^a   Ito, Takaaki ^b   Shimamura, Kenji ^c   Akimoto, Toshio ^a   Suzuki, Hidenori ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 MERCAPTOPYRUVATE SULPHURTRANSFERASE; 3-MERCAPTOPYRUVATE SULPHURTRANSFERASE; BIOGENIC AMINE; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; SULFURTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; DISORDERS OF AMINO ACID AND PROTEIN METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENE TARGETING; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT1A; SULFURTRANSFERASES;

EID: 84879651400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01986     Document Type: Article

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