Ablation of Fmrp in adult neural stem cells disrupts hippocampus-dependent learning

Nature Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 559-565

  Guo, Weixiang ^a   Allan, Andrea M ^a   Zong, Ruiting ^b   Zhang, Li ^a   Johnson, Eric B ^a   Schaller, Eric G ^a   Murthy, Adeline C ^a   Goggin, Samantha L ^a   Eisch, Amelia J ^c   Oostra, Ben A ^d   Nelson, David L ^b   Jin, Peng ^e   Zhao, Xinyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DISRUPTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS;

MUS;

EID: 79955682738     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2336     Document Type: Article

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