Alterations of cortical pyramidal neurons in mice lacking high-affinity nicotinic receptors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 11567-11572

  Ballesteros Yáñez, Inmaculada ^a,b,d   Benavides Piccione, Ruth ^a,b   Bourgeois, Jean Pierre ^c   Changeux, Jean Pierre ^c   DeFelipe, Javier ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Dendrites; Dendritic spines; Global neuronal workspace; Long range connections

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; GENE DELETION; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MUTATION; NERVE CELL;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 77954948104     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006269107     Document Type: Article

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