A simple role for BDNF in learning and memory?

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cunha, Carla ^a,b   Brambilla, Riccardo ^c   Thomas, Kerrie L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BDNF; Behavior; Cell signalling; Learning and memory; Synaptic plasticity; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C GAMMA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR GENE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TARGETING; STRUCTURAL GENE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 84860118330     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.02.001.2010     Document Type: Article

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