Altered Synapse Formation in the Adult Somatosensory Cortex of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Heterozygote Mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2394-2400

  Genoud, Christel ^a   Knott, Graham W ^a   Sakata, Kazuko ^b   Lu, Bai ^b   Welker, Egbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Barrel; BDNF; GABA; Plasticity; Spine; Synapse; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HETEROZYGOTE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DENDRITES; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 1542267747     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4040-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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