αβγ-Synuclein triple knockout mice revealage-dependent neuronal dysfunction

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

Volumn 107, Issue 45, 2010, Pages 19573-19578

  Greten Harrison, Becket ^a   Polydoro, Manuela ^b   Morimoto Tomita, Megumi ^a   Diao, Ling ^a   Williams, Andrew M ^a   Nie, Esther H ^a   Makani, Sachin ^b   Tian, Ning ^a   Castillo, Pablo E ^b   Buchman, Vladimir L ^c   Chandra, Sreeganga S ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Lewy bodies; Loss of function; Neurodegeneration; Retina; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; BETA SYNUCLEIN; GAMMA SYNUCLEIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; GENE DELETION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SURVIVAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650431984     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1005005107     Document Type: Article

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