Read the 2016 newsletters and recent scientific references 2016, issue 1: Striatal patch compartment lesions reduce cocaine-induced repetitive behaviors / by KA Horner and collaborators R Murray and MC Logan Mercer / featuring Dermorphin-SAP (Cat. #IT-12) From the President: New Beginnings Targeting Talk: Safety of the Toxin Featured Products: Custom Conjugates 2016, issue 2: Cerebral […]
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For years ATS customers have been Gangsta and Kermit fans, and now it is time to show your love by adding a caption to Kermit’s picture! Each quarter we will post a picture of Kermit up to his usual hijinks and ask our readership to offer their most creative captions. Be clever and creative as Kermit
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ATS is pleased to present a new product line specific for the vesicular GABA transporter (vGAT) protein. vGAT mediates both the accumulation of GABA into synaptic vesicles and its release from nerve terminals. vGAT is expressed in nerve endings of GABAergic neurons throughout the CNS. The GABAergic system is crucial to the development and functional
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CHOp75 Cells 192-IgG-SAP is the #1 rat p75-lesioning tool available for research use. Our development of CHOp75 cells grew from the need for a stable, reliable cell line to use for Quality Control of each new lot of 192-IgG-SAP. Now, these cells are available for use in laboratories worldwide. CHOp75 cells are standard CHO (Chinese
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The fundamental things apply. “The Peptidergic Control Circuit for Sighing,” recently published in the prestigious journal Nature, has made us rethink our fundamental belief that sighs are only “long, deep breaths expressing sadness, relief or exhaustion.” Often prompting someone to say, “What’s wrong?” As it turns out, sighs “also occur spontaneously every few minutes to
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by Ronald G. Wiley, M.D., Ph.D., Departments of Neurology and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and C. J. Vierck, Department of Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA Degeneration of the cholinergic basal forebrain (CBF: medial septum, diagonal band of Broca, nucleus basalis of Meynert/substantia innominata) is a prominent