PTEN deletion enhances the regenerative ability of adult corticospinal neurons

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1075-1081

  Liu, Kai ^a   Lu, Yi ^a   Lee, Jae K ^b   Samara, Ramsey ^b   Willenberg, Rafer ^c   Sears Kraxberger, Ilse ^c   Tedeschi, Andrea ^a   Park, Kevin Kyungsuk ^a   Jin, Duo ^a   Cai, Bin ^a   Xu, Bengang ^a   Connolly, Lauren ^a   Steward, Oswald ^c   Zheng, Binhai ^b   He, Zhigang ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; MTOR PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PTEN PROTEIN, MOUSE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE DELETION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPTOGENESIS; UPREGULATION; AGING; ANIMAL; CERVICAL SPINE; DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VERTEBRA;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPSES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 77956187905     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2603     Document Type: Article

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