Termination and initial branch formation of SNAP-25-deficient thalamocortical fibres in heterochronic organotypic co-cultures

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1586-1594

  Blakey, Daniel ^a   Wilson, Michael C ^b   Molnár, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical slice culture; Layerspecific stop signal; Neuronal activity; Regulated vesicular transmitter release; SNARE complex; Thalamocortical development

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EXOCYTOSIS; EXPLANT; FETUS; GENOTYPE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROEXOCYTOSIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; ORGAN CULTURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TARGET CELL; THALAMOCORTICAL AXON BRANCHING; THALAMOCORTICAL AXON TERMINATION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; THALAMUS;

EID: 84862101914     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08120.x     Document Type: Article

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