Selective targeting of newly synthesized Arc mRNA to active synapses requires NMDA receptor activation

Neuron

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 227-240

  Steward, Oswald ^a   Worley, Paul F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DIZOCILPINE; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROPIPETTE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RNA SYNTHESIS; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0035036344     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(01)00275-6     Document Type: Article

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