Morphological and metabolic changes in the cortex of mice lacking the functional presynaptic active zone protein bassoon: A combined 1H-NMR spectroscopy and histochemical study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 890-897

  Angenstein, Frank ^a,b   Hilfert, Liane ^b   Zuschratter, Werner ^a   Altrock, Wilko D ^a   Niessen, Heiko G ^b,c   Gundelfinger, Eckart D ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

1H NMR spectroscopy; Glutamine; Manganese enhanced MRI; Metabonomics; Mouse mutant

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASSOON GENE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METABOLISM; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GLIA CELL; HISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MANGANESE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTONS;

EID: 40849147081     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm122     Document Type: Article

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