Essential role for vav guanine nucleotide exchange factors in brain-derived neurotrophic factor-induced dendritic spine growth and synapse plasticity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 35, 2011, Pages 12426-12436

  Hale, Carly F ^a,b   Dietz, Karen C ^a,b,c   Varela, Juan A ^a,d   Wood, Cody B ^a,b   Zirlin, Benjamin C ^a,b   Leverich, Leah S ^a,d   Greene, Robert W ^a   Cowan, Christopher W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; RAC PROTEIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; VAV PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EMBRYO; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITIC SPINES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-VAV; RATS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOSOMES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 80052361179     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0685-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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