Adaptive morphological changes of neocortical interneurons in response to enlarged and more complex pyramidal cells in p21H-RasVal12 transgenic mice

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 335-343

  Alpár, Alán ^a   Seeger, Gudrun ^a   Härtig, Wolfgang ^a   Arendt, Thomas ^a   Gärtner, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; G protein; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALBINDIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALRETININ; PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN P21;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MALE; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEOCORTEX; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0346094108     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2003.10.007     Document Type: Article

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