Loss of microRNAs in pyramidal neurons leads to specific changes in inhibitory synaptic transmission in the prefrontal cortex

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 283-292

  Hsu, Ruby ^a   Schofield, Claude M ^a   Dela Cruz, Cassandra G ^a   Jones Davis, Dorothy M ^b   Blelloch, Robert ^a   Ullian, Erik M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dgcr8; Inhibitory synaptic transmission; MicroRNA; Parvalbumin interneurons; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; NERVE PROTEIN; PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN DGCR8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RNA PROCESSING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL SIZE; GENE DELETION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; PILOCARPINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEINS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SEIZURES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864044154     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: 10959327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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