Modulation of GABAA receptor signaling increases neurogenesis and suppresses anxiety through NFATc4

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 8630-8645

  Quadrato, Giorgia ^a   Elnaggar, Mohamed Y ^a,b   Duman, Ceren ^a,b   Sabino, Andrea ^a   Forsberg, Kirsi ^a   Di Giovanni, Simone ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult hippocampal neurogenesis; Anxiety; GABAergic signaling; NFATc4

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CALCINEURIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFATC4; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS VECTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CELL COUNTING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONAL CULTURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; STEREOLOGY;

ADULT HIPPOCAMPAL NEUROGENESIS; ANXIETY; GABAERGIC SIGNALING; NFATC4;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROGENESIS; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84902531805     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0047-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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