Lower glutamic acid decarboxylase 65-kda isoform messenger RNA and protein levels in the prefrontal cortex in schizoaffective disorder but not schizophrenia

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 167-176

  Glausier, Jill R ^a   Kimoto, Sohei ^a   Fish, Kenneth N ^a   Lewis, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal Immunofluorescence; GABA; GAD65; GAD67; Inhibition; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENZYMOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOSIS;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84918835677     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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