Aggregate formation and the impairment of long-term synaptic facilitation by ectopic expression of mutant huntingtin in Aplysia neurons

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 160-169

  Lee, Jin A ^a   Lim, Chae Seok ^a   Lee, Seung Hee ^a   Kim, Hyoung ^a   Nukina, Nobuyuki ^b   Kaang, Bong Kiun ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Aplysia; Huntingtin; Polyglutamine; Synaptic facilitation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HUNTINGTIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYGLUTAMINE; SEROTONIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOTOXICITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FACILITATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEROTONIN RELEASE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; APLYSIA;

EID: 0037380956     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.01650.x     Document Type: Article

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