Regulation of GABAA and Glutamate Receptor Expression, Synaptic Facilitation and Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus of Prion Mutant Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Rangel, Alejandra ^a,b   Madroñal, Noelia ^c   Gruart i Massó, Agnès ^c   Gavín, Rosalina ^a,b   Llorens, Franc ^a,b   Sumoy, Lauro ^d   Torres, Juan María ^e   Delgado García, José María ^c   Del Río, José Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^d Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer   (Spain)

^e Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRIONS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77949314722     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007592     Document Type: Article

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