Constitutive Ras activity induces hippocampal hypertrophy and remodeling of pyramidal neurons in synRas mice

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 630-641

  Gärtner, Ulrich ^a   Alpár, Alán ^a,c   Reimann, Frank ^a   Seeger, Gudrun ^a   Heumann, Rolf ^b   Arendt, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Mouse; Neurotrophin; Small G proteins

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; LUCIFER YELLOW; NEUROTROPHIN; RAS PROTEIN; SYNAPSIN I;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MITOSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; DENDRITES; GALACTOSIDES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTROPHY; INDOLES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RAS PROTEINS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 4444249258     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20194     Document Type: Article

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