Circadian glucocorticoid oscillations promote learning-dependent synapse formation and maintenance

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 698-705

  Liston, Conor ^a,b   Cichon, Joseph M ^a   Jeanneteau, Freddy ^c   Jia, Zhengping ^d   Chao, Moses V ^a   Gan, Wen Biao ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE GÉNOMIQUE FONCTIONNELLE   (France)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COFILIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; LIM KINASE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL LOSS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEARNING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84878606436     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3387     Document Type: Article

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