Presynaptic neurotrophin-3 increases the number of tectal synapses, vesicle density, and number of docked vesicles in chick embryos

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 458, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 62-77

  Wang, Xiaoxia ^a,c   Butowt, Rafal ^a,b   Von Bartheld, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde transport; BDNF; NT 3; Synaptic plasticity; Ultrastructure; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTOCHROME C; HYBRID PROTEIN; MONENSIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL VACUOLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 0037415813     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10558     Document Type: Article

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