Dynamic changes in neurexins' alternative splicing: Role of rho-associated protein kinases and relevance to memory formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Rozic, Gabriela ^a   Lupowitz, Zipora ^a   Piontkewitz, Yael ^a   Zisapel, Nava ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GEPHYRIN; NEUREXIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN KINASE C; RHO KINASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXON; FEAR; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NRXN1ALPHA GENE; NRXN2ALPHA GENE; NRXN3ALPA GENE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMORY; NEURONS; PROTEIN KINASES; RATS;

EID: 79954529302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018579     Document Type: Article

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