Mechanisms for axon maintenance and plasticity in motoneurons: Alterations in motoneuron disease

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-14

  Jablonka, Sibylle ^a   Dombert, Benjamin ^a   Asan, Esther ^a   Sendtner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ciliary neurotrophic factor; Motoneuron disease; Spinal muscular atrophy; STAT3; Stathmin

Indexed keywords

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; SCLEROPROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; GENE; MICROTUBULE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

MUS;

CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MOTONEURON DISEASE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; STAT3; STATHMIN;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; MOTOR ENDPLATE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84890160977     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12097     Document Type: Review

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