Neuronal Rac1 is required for learning-evoked neurogenesis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 30, 2013, Pages 12229-12241

  Haditsch, Ursula ^a   Anderson, Matthew P ^a   Freewoman, Julia ^a   Cord, Branden ^a   Babu, Harish ^a   Brakebusch, Cord ^b   Palmer, Theo D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; RAC1 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAINING;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOSIS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAC1 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880635268     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2939-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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