Pharmacological inactivation of the small GTPase Rac1 impairs long-term plasticity in the mouse hippocampus

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 305-312

  Martinez, Luis A ^a   Tejada Simon, Maria V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

EHT1864; LTD; LTP; NSC23766; Plasticity; Rac1

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RAC1 PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

AMINOQUINOLINES; ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MONOMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPEPTIDES; PYRIMIDINES; PYRONES; QUINOLINES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957803726     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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