The mental retardation protein PAK3 contributes to synapse formation and plasticity in hippocampus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 48, 2004, Pages 10816-10825

  Boda, Bernadett ^a   Alberi, Stefano ^a   Nikonenko, Irina ^a   Node Langlois, Roxanne ^a   Jourdain, Pascal ^a   Moosmayer, Marlyse ^a   Parisi Jourdain, Lorena ^a   Muller, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive mechanisms; Dendritic spines; Rat; Rho signaling; Synaptogenesis; Transfection

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P21; PROTEIN P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BIOLISTICS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CODON, NONSENSE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DENDRITES; GENES, DOMINANT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MENTAL RETARDATION, X-LINKED; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEUROBLASTOMA; NIH 3T3 CELLS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PSEUDOPODIA; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 10044235009     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2931-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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