Impairments in high-frequency transmission, synaptic vesicle docking, and synaptic protein distribution in the hippocampus of BDNF knockout mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4972-4983

  Pozzo Miller, Lucas D ^a,c   Gottschalk, Wolfram ^b   Zhang, Li ^a   McDermott, Kathryn ^a   Du, Jing ^b   Gopalakrishnan, Raj ^b   Oho, Chikara ^b   Sheng, Zu Hang ^a   Lu, Bai ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Hippocampus; Knockout mice; Synaptic fatigue; Synaptobrevin; Synaptophysin; Vesicle docking

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033564051     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-12-04972.1999     Document Type: Article

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