Fetal life in Down Syndrome starts with normal neuronal density but impaired dendritic spines and synaptosomal structure

Journal of Neural Transmission, Supplement

Volumn , Issue 61, 2001, Pages 59-70

  Weitzdoerfer, R ^a   Dierssen, M ^b   Fountoulakis, M ^c   Lubec, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HOSPITAL DURAN I REYNALS   (Spain)

^c Gene Technologies   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DREBRIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARRIER PROTEIN; DREBRINS; ENOLASE; GUANYLATE KINASE; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; NUCLEOSIDE MONOPHOSPHATE KINASE; SOLUBLE N ETHYLMALEIMIDE SENSITIVE FACTOR ATTACHMENT PROTEIN; SOLUBLE N-ETHYLMALEIMIDE-SENSITIVE FACTOR ATTACHMENT PROTEIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CADAVER; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DOWN SYNDROME; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETUS; GEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYNAPSE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DENDRITE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; DOWN SYNDROME; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NUCLEOSIDE-PHOSPHATE KINASE; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0035226716     PISSN: 03036995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6262-0_5     Document Type: Article

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