Primary hippocampal neurons, which lack four crucial extracellular matrix molecules, display abnormalities of synaptic structure and function and severe deficits in perineuronal net formation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7742-7755

  Geissler, Maren ^a   Gottschling, Christine ^a   Aguado, Ainhara ^a   Rauch, Uwe ^c   Wetzel, Christian H ^a,b   Hatt, Hanns ^a   Faissner, Andreas ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREVICAN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; NESTIN; NEUROCAN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; TENASCIN; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPSE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BREVICAN; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE NET; NEUROCAN; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; TENASCIN;

EID: 84877137739     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3275-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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