Corticotropin-releasing factor and urocortin regulate spine and synapse formation: Structural basis for stress-induced neuronal remodeling and pathology

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 86-92

  Gounko, N V ^a   Swinny, J D ^b   Kalicharan, D ^a   Jafari, S ^a   Corteen, N ^b   Seifi, M ^b   Bakels, R ^a   Van Der Want, J J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cerebellum; dendritic development; maturation; spine; stress; synapse

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UROCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL DENSITY; CELL POPULATION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINE; STRESS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CEREBELLUM; CHELATING AGENTS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DENDRITIC SPINES; EGTAZIC ACID; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDE HORMONES; POST-SYNAPTIC DENSITY; PURKINJE CELLS; PYRIMIDINES; RATS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1;

EID: 84871324464     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.43     Document Type: Article

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