Overexpression of RCAN1 isoform 4 in mouse neurons leads to a moderate behavioral impairment

Neurological Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-89

  Bhoiwala, Devang L ^a   Koleilat, Issam ^a   Qian, Jiang ^a   Beyer, Barbara ^a   Hushmendy, Shazaan F ^a   Mathew, Alex ^a   Bhoiwala, Dipti L ^a   Ferland, Russell J ^a   Crawford, Dana R ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's; Cognitive impairment; Down syndrome; Neuronal expression; RCAN1

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 6; ISOPROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TAU PROTEIN; TUBULIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; RCAN1 GENE; ROTAROD TEST; SPATIAL LEARNING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERKINESIS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84872591871     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132812Y.0000000117     Document Type: Article

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