Dicer loss in striatal neurons produces behavioral and neuroanatomical phenotypes in the absence of neurodegeneration

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

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5614-5619

  Cuellar, Trinna L ^a,b   Davis, Tigwa H ^b   Nelson, Peter T ^c   Loeb, Gabriel B ^a   Harfe, Brian D ^d   Ullian, Erik ^b   McManus, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clasping; Dopamine receptor 1; MicroRNAs; Rett syndrome; Striatum

Indexed keywords

DICER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; LIFESPAN; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; MICE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 44449132518     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801689105     Document Type: Article

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