Dendritic spine pathology and deficits in experience-dependent dendritic plasticity in R6/1 Huntington's disease transgenic mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2799-2807

  Spires, Tara L ^a,b   Grote, Helen E ^a   Garry, Sylvia ^a   Cordery, Patricia M ^a   Van Dellen, Anton ^a   Blakemore, Colin ^a   Hannan, Anthony J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Medium spiny neurons; Neurodegeneration; Single section Golgi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL SIZE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENSITY; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; MUTATION; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATIC CELL; SYMPTOM; TISSUE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SILVER STAINING; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 2942620844     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2004.03374.x     Document Type: Article

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