Mkl transcription cofactors regulate structural plasticity in hippocampal neurons

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1915-1925

  O'Sullivan, Niamh C ^a   Pickering, Mark ^a   Di Giacomo, Danika ^a   Loscher, Jennifer S ^a   Murphy, Keith J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

actin dynamics; memory; passive avoidance conditioning; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 2; MEGAKARYOBLASTIC ACUTE LEUKEMIA 1 PROTEIN; MEGAKARYOBLASTIC ACUTE LEUKEMIA 2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLUG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINESIN; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77955978982     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp262     Document Type: Article

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