Enhanced Ras activity preserves dendritic size and extension as well as synaptic contacts of neurons after functional deprivation in synRas mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3083-3094

  Alpar A ^a,c   Naumann, N ^b   Hartig W ^b   Arendt, T ^b   Gartner U ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Plasticity; Remodelling; Spine; Vibrissectomy

Indexed keywords

RAS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; DENERVATION; LAC OPERON; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 45349088385     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06313.x     Document Type: Article

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