Frontotemporal lobar degeneration-related proteins induce only subtle memory-related deficits when bilaterally overexpressed in the dorsal hippocampus

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 807-814

  Dayton, Robert D ^a   Wang, David B ^a   Cain, Cooper D ^a   Schrott, Lisa M ^a   Ramirez, Julio J ^b   King, Michael A ^c,d   Klein, Ronald L ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adeno associated virus; Gene transfer; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Neurodegeneration; Neurodegenerative diseases; Tau; TDP 43

Indexed keywords

DNA; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ADENOVIRUS; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GLIOSIS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MARKER GENE; MAZE TEST; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TAU GENE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL DEATH; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84856542945     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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