BCL-xL regulates synaptic plasticity

Molecular Interventions

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 208-222

  Jonas, Elizabeth ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM; ION CHANNEL; PROTEIN BCL XL; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL PROTECTION; EXCITOTOXICITY; LEARNING; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMORY; MITOCHONDRIAL ENERGY TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AXONS; BCL-X PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT ANION CHANNELS;

EID: 33749009587     PISSN: 15340384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mi.6.4.7     Document Type: Review

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