Dendritic vulnerability in neurodegenerative disease: Insights from analyses of cortical pyramidal neurons in transgenic mouse models

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 214, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 181-199

  Luebke, Jennifer I ^a   Weaver, Christina M ^b,c   Rocher, Anne B ^a   Rodriguez, Alfredo ^b   Crimins, Johanna L ^a   Dickstein, Dara L ^b   Wearne, Susan L ^a   Hof, Patrick R ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid; Computational modeling; Dendritic spine; Tau; Whole cell patch clamp

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC SPINE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TAUOPATHY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; STAINING AND LABELING;

MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 77950458272     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-010-0244-2     Document Type: Review

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