Impaired sprouting and Axonal Atrophy in cerebellar climbing fibres following in vivo silencing of the growth-associated protein GAP-43

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Grasselli, Giorgio ^a,c   Mandolesi, Georgia ^a   Strata, Piergiorgio ^a,b   Cesare, Paolo ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROMODULIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CLIMBING FIBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; UPREGULATION; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; CELL STRAIN; CEREBELLUM; GENETICS; LENTIVIRINAE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PATHOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; AXONS; CEREBELLUM; GAP-43 PROTEIN; GENE SILENCING; LENTIVIRUS; MICE; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROGENESIS; PC12 CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 79958731794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020791     Document Type: Article

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