P-Rex2 regulates Purkinje cell dendrite morphology and motor coordination

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4483-4488

  Donald, Sarah ^a   Humby, Trevor ^b,f   Fyfe, Ian ^a   Segonds Pichon, Anne ^c   Walker, Simon A ^d   Andrews, Simon R ^c   Coadwell, W John ^c   Emson, Piers ^e   Wilkinson, Lawrence S ^b,f   Welch, Heidi C E ^a  

^a Inositide Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^b Babraham Research Campus   (United Kingdom)

^c Bioinformatics Group   (United Kingdom)

^d Imaging Facility   (United Kingdom)

^e BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ataxia; G protein coupled receptor; Guanine nucleotide exchange factor; Phosphoinositide 3 kinase; Small GTpase Rac

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN P REX1; PROTEIN P REX2; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; P REX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; P-REX2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEALTH; LUNG; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY;

MUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DENDRITES; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; HEALTH; LUNG; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 41949120605     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0712324105     Document Type: Article

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