Glial fibrillary acidic protein is differentially expressed across cortical and subcortical regions in healthy brains and downregulated in the thalamus and caudate nucleus of depressed suicides

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 509-515

  Torres Platas, S G ^a,b   Nagy, C ^a,b   Wakid, M ^a   Turecki, G ^a,b   Mechawar, N ^a,b  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; PERIKARYON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRIATE CORTEX; SUBCORTEX; SUICIDE; THALAMUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOWN-REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUICIDE; THALAMUS;

EID: 84930338835     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2015.65     Document Type: Article

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