Mfn2 is required for mitochondrial development and synapse formation in human induced pluripotent stem cells/hiPSC derived cortical neurons

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Fang, Du ^a   Yan, Shijun ^a   Yu, Qing ^a,b   Chen, Doris ^a   Yan, Shirley Shidu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MFN2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUBB3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUBULIN;

ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SYNAPSE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUBULIN;

EID: 84983347870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31462     Document Type: Article

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