Dendritic pathology in prion disease starts at the synaptic spine

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 6224-6233

  Fuhrmann, Martin ^a   Mitteregger, Gerda ^a   Kretzschmar, Hans ^a   Herms, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Prion; Somatosensory cortex; Spine; Structural plasticity; Two photon

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRION DISEASES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 34250007899     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5062-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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