mTOR signaling contributes to motor skill learning in mice

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Bergeron, Yan ^a   Chagniel, Laure ^a   Bureau, Geneviève ^a   Massicotte, Guy ^a   Cyr, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

4EBP1; Motor learning; mTOR; P70S6K; Rapamycin; Rotarod; siRNA

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE SILENCING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PERFORMANCE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRAINING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84897535590     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2014.00026     Document Type: Article

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