MicroRNAs at the synapse

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 842-849

  Schratt, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; LEVAMISOLE; MICRORNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DENDRITIC SPINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETT SYNDROME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPSE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SYNAPSES;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70450248489     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2763     Document Type: Review

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