Olfactory abnormalities in Huntington's disease: Decreased plasticity in the primary olfactory cortex of R6/1 transgenic mice and reduced olfactory discrimination in patients

Brain Research

Volumn 1151, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 219-226

  Lazic, Stanley E ^a   Goodman, Anna O G ^a,b   Grote, Helen E ^c   Blakemore, Colin ^c   Morton, A Jennifer ^b   Hannan, Anthony J ^d   van Dellen, Anton ^c   Barker, Roger A ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DCX; Neurogenesis; Olfaction; Plasticity; Pyriform; R6 1; Stereology

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMELLING DISORDER; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE L1; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPEPTIDES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; SIALIC ACIDS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34248140136     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.018     Document Type: Article

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