Loss of Inhibitory Interneurons in the Dorsal Spinal Cord and Elevated Itch in Bhlhb5 Mutant Mice

Neuron

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 886-898

  Ross, Sarah E ^a   Mardinly, Alan R ^a   McCord, Alejandra E ^a   Zurawski, Jonathan ^a   Cohen, Sonia ^a   Jung, Cynthia ^b,e   Hu, Linda ^a   Mok, Stephanie I ^a   Shah, Anar ^a   Savner, Erin M ^a   Tolias, Christos ^a   Corfas, Roman ^a   Chen, Suzhen ^c   Inquimbert, Perrine ^c   Xu, Yi ^d   McInnes, Roderick R ^b,e,f   Rice, Frank L ^g,h   Corfas, Gabriel ^c   Ma, Qiufu ^a,d   Woolf, Clifford J ^a,c   Greenberg, Michael E ^a   more..

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^h Integrated Tissue Dynamics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Devbio; Molneuro

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BHLHB5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MAPPING; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PRURITUS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCRATCHING; SKIN DEFECT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NEURAL INHIBITION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRURITUS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 77950218258     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.02.025     Document Type: Article

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