Developmental and maintenance defects in Rett syndrome neurons identified by a new mouse staging system in vitro

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Baj, Gabriele ^a   Patrizio, Angela ^a   Montalbano, Alberto ^a   Sciancalepore, Marina ^a   Tongiorgi, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dendrites; Dendritic Spines; Hippocampal neurons; Neurodevelopment; Neuronal morphology; Rett Syndrome; Staging system

Indexed keywords

METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; SYNAPSIN I;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONAL CULTURE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RETT SYNDROME; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 84893599757     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00018     Document Type: Article

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