Change in the shape of dendritic spines caused by overexpression of drebrin in cultured cortical neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3918-3925

  Hayashi, Kensuke ^a,b   Shirao, Tomoaki ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin; Drebrin; Green fluorescent protein; Plasticity; Primary culture; Spine

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; DREBRIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL SHAPE; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT;

EID: 0033562792     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-10-03918.1999     Document Type: Article

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