Small GTPases Rac and Rho in the maintenance of dendritic spines and branches in hippocampal pyramidal neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 5329-5338

  Nakayama, Ann Y ^a   Harms, Matthew B ^a   Luo, Liqun ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biolistic transfection; Dendritic spines; Effector domain mutants; PSD 95; Pyramidal neurons; Rac; Rho; ROCK; Y 27632

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; DENDRITIC SPINE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLISTICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, REPORTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034661746     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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