Aberrant heart rate and brainstem brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling in a mouse model of Huntington's disease

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1481.e1-1481.e5

  Griffioen, Kathleen J ^a   Wan, Ruiqian ^a   Brown, Tashalee R ^a,b   Okun, Eitan ^c   Camandola, Simonetta ^a   Mughal, Mohamed R ^a   Phillips, Terry M ^d   Mattson, Mark P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Brainstem; Huntington's disease

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BRAIN STEM; CARDIOVASCULAR CONTROL NUCLEUS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; EARLY DISEASE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAGING;

EID: 84861192181     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.11.030     Document Type: Article

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