Brain activity mapping in Mecp2 mutant mice reveals functional deficits in forebrain circuits, including key nodes in the default mode network, that are reversed with ketamine treatment

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 13860-13872

  Kron, Miriam ^a   Howell, C James ^a   Adams, Ian T ^a   Ransbottom, Michael ^a   Christian, Diana ^a   Ogier, Michael ^a   Katz, David M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; PROTEIN FOS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETT SYNDROME; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPIKE; SUBCORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, FOS; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MINIATURE POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NERVE NET; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RETT SYNDROME; SENSORY GATING; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84866981228     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2159-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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