Increased expression of CaM kinase II alpha in the brains of scrapie-infected mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-40

  Jin, Jae Kwang ^a   Choi, Jin Kyu ^a   Lee, Hyoung Gon ^a   Kim, Yong Sun ^a   Carp, Richard I ^b   Choi, Eun Kyoung ^a,c  

^a Hallym Acad Sci Hallym U   (South Korea)

^b NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^c Genetics and Aging Research Unit   (United States)

Author keywords

CaM kinase II ; Immunohistochemistry; Scrapie; Synaptic plasticity; Western blot

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SCRAPIE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SCRAPIE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032880866     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00622-9     Document Type: Article

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