Hyperconnectivity and slow synapses during early development of medial prefrontal cortex in a mouse model for mental retardation and Autism

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1333-1342

  Testa Silva, Guilherme ^a   Loebel, Alex ^b   Giugliano, Michele ^c,d,e   De Kock, Christiaan P J ^a   Mansvelder, Huibert D ^a   Meredith, Rhiannon M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autism; EPSC; Fragile X; hyperconnectivity; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84856248452     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr224     Document Type: Article

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