Hippocampal transcriptomic and proteomic alterations in the BTBR mouse model of autism spectrum disorder

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Daimon, Caitlin M ^a   Jasien, Joan M ^a   Wood, William H ^b   Zhang, Yongqing ^b   Becker, Kevin G ^b   Silverman, Jill L ^c,d   Crawley, Jacqueline N ^c,d   Martin, Bronwen ^a   Maudsley, Stuart ^a,e,f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder phenotype; Behavior; Bioinformatics; BTBR mouse model; Etiology

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN PROTEIN; CASKIN1 PROTEIN; CORTICOSTERONE; GASTRIC INHIBITORY POLYPEPTIDE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PANCREAS POLYPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE YY; SHANK3 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; BTBR MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

EID: 84949547182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00324     Document Type: Article

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