A peptide mimetic targeting Trans-homophilic NCAM binding sites promotes spatial learning and neural plasticity in the hippocampus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kraev, Igor ^a   Henneberger, Christian ^b   Rossetti, Clara ^c   Conboy, Lisa ^c   Kohler, Lene B ^d   Fantin, Martina ^c   Jennings, Alistair ^b   Venero, Cesar ^e   Popov, Victor ^a   Rusakov, Dmitri ^b   Stewart, Michael G ^a   Bock, Elisabeth ^d   Berezin, Vladimir ^d   Sandi, Carmen ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUA1 PROTEIN; GLUA2 PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; PEPTIDOMIMETIC AGENT; PLANNEXIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ENDO ALPHA SIALIDASE; ENDO-ALPHA-SIALIDASE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLYCOSIDASE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PLANNEXIN PEPTIDE; POLYSIALIC ACID; SIALIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIALYLATION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; NEURITE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; DENDRITIC SPINES; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEURITES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SIALIC ACIDS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 80051998720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023433     Document Type: Article

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