Lack of brain serotonin affects postnatal development and serotonergic neuronal circuitry formation

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1106-1118

  Migliarini, S ^a   Pacini, G ^a   Pelosi, B ^a   Lunardi, G ^b   Pasqualetti, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SACRO CUORE DON CALABRIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

BDNF; neural development; neurodevelopmental disorders; serotonergic innervation; serotonin; Tph2

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SEROTONIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GROWTH RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INNERVATION; LETHALITY; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROANATOMY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; SURVIVAL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GROWTH DISORDERS; LONGEVITY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURITES; NEUROGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SEROTONIN; TRANSGENES; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 84884672306     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.128     Document Type: Article

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