The netrin receptor DCC is required in the pubertal organization of mesocortical dopamine circuitry

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 8381-8394

  Manitt, Colleen ^a   Mimee, Andrea ^a   Eng, Conrad ^a   Pokinko, Matthew ^a   Stroh, Thomas ^b   Cooper, Helen M ^c   Kolb, Bryan ^d   Flores, Cecilia ^a  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NETRIN 1; NETRIN 1 RECEPTOR; NETRIN 1 RECEPTOR DCC; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VARICOSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITIC SPINES; DOPAMINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SYNAPSES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 79958246447     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0606-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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