Synucleins are developmentally expressed, and α-synuclein regulates the size of the presynaptic vesicular pool in primary hippocampal neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 3214-3220

  Murphy, Diane D ^a   Rueter, Susan M ^a   Trojanowski, John Q ^a   Lee, Virginia M Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lewy bodies; Parkinson's disease; Primary neurons; Synapse; Synuclein; Vesicle

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; SYNAPSIN I; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEWY BODY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

EID: 0034193399     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-09-03214.2000     Document Type: Article

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