Npas4: Linking Neuronal Activity to Memory

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 264-275

  Sun, Xiaochen ^a,b   Lin, Yingxi ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURONAL PAS DOMAIN PROTEIN 4; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NPAS4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CELL ACTIVITY; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BRAIN; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURONS;

EID: 84960824769     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.02.003     Document Type: Review

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