Hippocampal Lipocalin 2: an emotional link between neurons and glia
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Hippocampal Lipocalin 2: an emotional link between neurons and glia
Lipocalins are a diverse family of secreted proteins that are involved in a variety of cellular processes. A member of the lipocalin protein family is lipocalin-2. Lipocalin-2 mRNA and protein expression in the adult brain, under physiological conditions, is thought to be rather low, especially in the hippocampus (Chia et al., 2011). Moreover, lipocalin-2 seems to be expressed, at least in the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1662-5102
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2013.00132