Control of postnatal apoptosis in the neocortex by RhoA-subfamily GTPases determines neuronal density

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4221-4231

  Sanno, Hitomi ^a,g   Shen, Xiao ^a   Kuru, Nilgün ^b,c   Bormuth, Ingo ^d,e   Bobsin, Kristin ^a   Gardner, Humphrey A R ^f   Komljenovic, Dorde ^a,h   Tarabykin, Victor ^d,e   Erzurumlu, Reha S ^c   Tucker, Kerry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^h GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; GENE LOCUS; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WILD TYPE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DOMINANT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 77949787224     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3318-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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