SYNGAP1: Mind the gap

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Jeyabalan, Nallathambi ^a   Clement, James P ^b  

^a Narayana Health City   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Intellectual disability; Learning and memory; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Synaptic plasticity; SYNGAP

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALCIUM ION; COFILIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; MAGNESIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN CDC42; RAP PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SYNAPTIC RAS GTPASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASTROCYTE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL MATURATION; COGNITION; DENDRITIC SPINE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMOTION; EPILEPSY; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURODEVELOPMENT DISORDER; NEURONAL HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOPATHY;

EID: 84958740214     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2016.00032     Document Type: Review

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