Ultastructural localization of full-length trkB immunoreactivity in rat hippocampus suggests multiple roles in modulating activity-dependent synaptic plasticity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 8009-8026

  Drake, C T ^a,c   Milner, T A ^a   Patterson, S L ^b  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^b The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Electron microscopy; Neurotrophin; Plasticity; TrkB; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033567457     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-18-08009.1999     Document Type: Article

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