Astrocytes mediate synapse elimination through MEGF10 and MERTK pathways

Nature

Volumn 504, Issue 7480, 2013, Pages 394-400

  Chung, Won Suk ^a   Clarke, Laura E ^a   Wang, Gordon X ^a   Stafford, Benjamin K ^b   Sher, Alexander ^c   Chakraborty, Chandrani ^a   Joung, Julia ^a   Foo, Lynette C ^d   Thompson, Andrew ^e   Chen, Chinfei ^e   Smith, Stephen J ^a   Barres, Ben A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEGF 10 PROTEIN; MERTK PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MEMORY; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; LEARNING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RETINA; SYNAPSES;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84890547494     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12776     Document Type: Article

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