CRTC1 Function During Memory Encoding Is Disrupted in Neurodegeneration

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 111-123

  Parra Damas, Arnaldo ^a,b   Chen, Meng ^a,b   Enriquez Barreto, Lilian ^a,b   Ortega, Laura ^a   Acosta, Sara ^a   Perna, Judith Camats ^a   Fullana, M Neus ^a   Aguilera, José ^a,b   Rodríguez Alvarez, José ^a,b   Saura, Carlos A ^a,b  

^a Institut de Neurociències   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; CREB; Gene therapy; Memory; Neurodegeneration; TORC

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE RESPONSE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN REGULATED TRANSCRIPTION COACTIVATOR 1; PRESENILIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CREB1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CRTC1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 1, MOUSE; PRESENILIN 2; PSEN2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VIRUS; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DENDRITE; FEAR; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MEMORY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DENDRITES; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRESENILIN-1; PRESENILIN-2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84994153923     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.06.025     Document Type: Article

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