Neuroligin-1-dependent competition regulates cortical synaptogenesis and synapse number

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1667-1674

  Kwon, Hyung Bae ^a,c   Kozorovitskiy, Yevgenia ^a   Oh, Won Jong ^a   Peixoto, Rui T ^a   Akhtar, Nazia ^a   Saulnier, Jessica L ^a   Gu, Chenghua ^b   Sabatini, Bernardo L ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NEUROLIGIN 1;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGENESIS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84870494527     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3256     Document Type: Article

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