Nutritional tryptophan restriction impairs plasticity of retinotectal axons during the critical period

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 108-115

  Penedo, Letícia Abel ^a   Oliveira Silva, Priscilla ^a,b   Gonzalez, Ericka M C ^a,c   Maciel, Rafaela ^a   Jurgilas, Patricia B ^b   Melibeu, Adriana da Cunha Faria ^a   Campello Costa, Paula ^a   Serfaty, Claudio Alberto ^a  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PASSO FUNDO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Critical period; Malnutrition; Plasticity; Retinotectal; Serotonin; Tryptophan; Tryptophan intake

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GELATIN; GELATINASE B; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROTEIN KINASE B; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; MALE; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 9; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ONCOGENE PROTEIN V-AKT; PREGNANCY; RATS; RETINA; TRYPTOPHAN; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 64549130819     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.01.021     Document Type: Article

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