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Brain Res
; 1106(1): 205-210, 2006 Aug 23.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16828464
RESUMEN
Preliminary investigations, studying gene expression and biochemical activities of enzymes d-amino acid oxidase (DAAO) and kynurenine aminotransferase-1 (KAT-1), revealed elevated cerebellar KAT-1 and DAAO activities in post-mortem brain samples from schizophrenic versus normal individuals. In addition, we have identified a transcript of DAAO, which was expressed in significantly higher quantities in the diseased cerebellum but not detected in the parietal cortex where DAAO activity is absent.