title: Regional and subcellular calmodulin content of rat brain.
abstract: Calmodulin contents of cortex, cerebellum, striatum, diencephalon, and medulla + pons and of subcellular fractions of each region were determined by radioimmunoassay. The diencephalon had the highest level of calmodulin (48.87 +/- 4.56 micrograms/mg protein), whereas medulla + pons had the lowest level (8.01 +/- 0.84 micrograms/mg protein). In all brain regions, the mitochondrial fraction was richest in calmodulin (from 71 to 227 micrograms/mg protein) whereas other areas contained from 6 to 66 micrograms/mg protein.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000032:analysis*; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000032:analysis; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000032:analysis; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000032:analysis; D004027:Diencephalon / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000032:analysis; D011149:Pons / Q000032:analysis; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D002147:Calmodulin