Ablation of BRaf Impairs Neuronal Differentiation in the Postnatal Hippocampus and Cerebellum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Verena ^a   Götz, Rudolf ^a,b   Xiang, Chaomei ^a   Camarero, Guadelupe ^a   Braun, Attila ^b   Zhang, Yina ^a   Blum, Robert ^b   Heinsen, Helmut ^a   Nieswandt, Bernhard ^b   Rapp, Ulf R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HEART AND LUNG RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B RAF KINASE GENE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL FATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURKINJE CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CEREBELLUM; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE DELETION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF;

EID: 84874670643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058259     Document Type: Article

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