Genetic evidence that brain-derived neurotrophic factor mediates competitive interactions between individual cortical neurons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19456-19461

  English, Christopher N ^a   Vigers, Alison J ^a   Jones, Kevin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional knockout; Cre recombinase

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULTHOOD; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENSITY; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DENDRITIC SPINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOTYPE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84869779301     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206492109     Document Type: Article

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