Glial ephrin-A3 regulates hippocampal dendritic spine morphology and glutamate transport

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

Volumn 106, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 12524-12529

  Carmona, Maria A ^a   Murai, Keith K ^b   Wang, Lei ^a   Roberts, Amanda J ^c   Pasqualea, Elena B ^a,d  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Glial glutamate transporters; Hippocampus dependent learning; Neuron glia communication; Perisynaptic glial processes

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN A3; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A4; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINE MALFORMATION; STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DENDRITIC SPINES; EPHRIN-A3; GLUTAMATES; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROGLIA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTOR, EPHA4;

MUS;

EID: 68149159282     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903328106     Document Type: Article

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