SRF mediates activity-induced gene expression and synaptic plasticity but not neuronal viability

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 759-767

  Ramanan, Narendrakumar ^a   Shen, Ying ^a   Sarsfield, Sarah ^a   Lemberger, Thomas ^b   Schütz, Günther ^b   Linden, David J ^a   Ginty, David D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INFORMATION STORAGE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSACTIVATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SERUM RESPONSE FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 22844451180     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1462     Document Type: Article

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