Neural cell adhesion molecule ablation in mice causes hippocampal dysplasia and loss of septal cholinergic neurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 519, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2475-2492

  Tereshchenko, Yuliya ^a   Morellini, Fabio ^a   Dityatev, Alexander ^a,b   Schachner, Melitta ^a,c   Irintchev, Andrey ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Cell adhesion; Cognition; Dentate gyrus; Septum

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DENSITY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DYSPLASIA; EMBRYO; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; GENOTYPE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURON; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

EID: 79959707277     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22636     Document Type: Article

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