A new player in the "synaptopathy" of Alzheimer's disease - Arc/Arg 3.1

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 4 FEB, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kerrigan, Talitha L ^a   Randall, Andrew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; AMPA receptor trafficking; Amyloid beta protein; Arc; Intrinsic plasticity; Neurophysiology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; AMPA RECEPTOR; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; DYNAMIN II; ENDOPHILIN; ENDOPHILIN 1; GAMMA SECRETASE; MESSENGER RNA; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 1; PRESENILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARC GENE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HUMAN; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPTOPATHY;

EID: 84878799974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00009     Document Type: Short Survey

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