At least 27 alternatively spliced NCAM mRNAs are present in rat brain, suggesting wide and diverse functions of NCAM (Reyes et al., 1991).
These data are in agreement with previous studies in the aged rat brain suggesting a rostral caudal gradient of microglial activation (Kullberg et al., 2001).
The creatine transporter is widely expressed in the fetal rat brain, suggesting that the immature brain may have a greater capacity to take up creatine from the circulation compared to the more mature brain, although evidence also suggests that creatine may enter the immature brain more easily by diffusion - i.e., a non-carrier pathway [ 93].
Divergent expression of type 2 deiodinase and the putative thyroxine-binding protein p29, in rat brain, suggests that they are functionally unrelated proteins.
Membrane binding and autoradiographic studies on rat brain suggest the existence of polyphenol specific plasma membrane binding sites, possibly underlying the neuroprotective action of polyphenols [21].
Furthermore, transplantation of glioblastoma cells expressing Rac, CDC42, or RHOA reporters into rat brain suggested that the balance of Rac, CDC42, and RHOA activities dictates modes of cancer cell invasion (Hirata et al., 2012).
Indeed, our initial investigations of follistatin expression by the NPCs after transplantation to the rat brain suggest that they sustain the follistatin expression in vivo (K. Staflin, unpublished observation).
Recently, a comparison between DAergic cell groups in the zebrafish and rat brain suggests a similarity between DA neurons in the PPa of zebrafish with the A14 and A15 DAergic groups [ 59].
Previously, heavy non-CpG methylation in zebrafish was reported ; however, other bisulfite sequencing experiments have demonstrated very low levels of non-CpG methylation.,, RRBS studies on rat brain suggested less than 1% non-CpG methylation.
Although the resolution and sensitivity of RatCAP was comparable to the commercial scanner, co-author Daniela Schulz, a behavioral neuroscientist, says RatCAP provided a different pattern of dopamine activity in the rats' brains, suggesting that anesthesia may alter neurochemistry more than researchers had realized.
Finite element modeling of 10 Hz rTMS with the iron-core in a simplified rat brain model suggests a peak electric field of 85 and 12.7 V/m, within the skull and the brain, respectively.
