Synapse loss in cortex of agrin-deficient mice after genetic rescue of perinatal death

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 7183-7195

  Ksiazek, Iwona ^a   Burkhardt, Constanze ^a   Lin, Shuo ^a   Seddik, Riad ^b   Maj, Marcin ^a   Bezakova, Gabriela ^a   Jucker, Mathias ^c   Arber, Silvia ^a,d   Caroni, Pico ^d   Sanes, Joshua R ^e   Bettler, Bernhard ^b   Ruegg, Markus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitatory synapse; Gene expression; MAP kinase; MuSK; Neuromuscular synapse; Spines

Indexed keywords

AGRIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEREGULATION; ELECTRONICS; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEATH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPSE;

AGE FACTORS; AGRIN; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHICKENS; FEMALE; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SURVIVAL RATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 34447132889     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1609-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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