Reduced expression of the ATRX gene, a chromatin-remodeling factor, causes hippocampal dysfunction in mice

Hippocampus

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 678-687

  Nogami, Tatsuya ^a   Beppu, Hideyuki ^a,b   Tokoro, Takashi ^a   Moriguchi, Shigeki ^c   Shioda, Norifumi ^c   Fukunaga, Kohji ^c   Ohtsuka, Toshihisa ^d   Ishii, Yoko ^a,e   Sasahara, Masakiyo ^a,e   Shimada, Yutaka ^a   Nishijo, Hisao ^a,e   Li, En ^b,f   Kitajima, Isao ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

ATRX; CaMKII; GluR1; Learning; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ALPHA THALASSEMIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRX GENE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; WILD TYPE;

ALPHA-THALASSEMIA; ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA HELICASES; EXONS; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RETARDATION, X-LINKED; MICE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTORS, AMPA;

EID: 78650881368     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20782     Document Type: Article

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