Lack of connexin43-mediated Bergmann glial gap junctional coupling does not affect cerebellar long-term depression, motor coordination, or eyeblink conditioning

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue APR, 2008, Pages

  Tanaka, Mika ^a   Yamaguchi, Kazuhiko ^a   Tatsukawa, Tetsuya ^a   Nishioka, Chieko ^a,b   Nishiyama, Hiroshi ^a   Theis, Martin ^c   Willecke, Klaus ^c   Itohara, Shigeyoshi ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b Brain Science And Life Technology Research Foundation   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Bergmann glia; Cerebellar long term depression; Conditional knockout; Connexin43; Cre recombinase; Eyeblink conditioning; Gap junction

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949085338     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.08.001.2008     Document Type: Article

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