Environment-specific expression of the immediate-early gene Arc in hippocampal neuronal ensembles

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1120-1124

  Guzowski, John F ^a   McNaughton, Bruce L ^b   Barnes, Carol A ^b   Worley, Paul F ^c  

^a Virion Systems Inc   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DENDRITES; ELECTROSHOCK; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA PROBES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033490104     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16046     Document Type: Article

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