Title |
Behavioral and transcriptome alterations in male and female mice with postnatal deletion of TrkB in dorsal striatal medium spiny neurons
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Published in |
Molecular Neurodegeneration, December 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1750-1326-8-47 |
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Authors |
Ellen M Unterwald, Michelle E Page, Timothy B Brown, Jonathan S Miller, Marta Ruiz, Karen A Pescatore, Baoji Xu, Louis French Reichardt, Joel Beverley, Bin Tang, Heinz Steiner, Elizabeth A Thomas, Michelle E Ehrlich |
Abstract |
The high affinity tyrosine kinase receptor, TrkB, is the primary receptor for brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and plays an important role in development, maintenance and plasticity of the striatal output medium size spiny neuron. The striatal BDNF/TrkB system is thereby implicated in many physiologic and pathophysiologic processes, the latter including mood disorders, addiction, and Huntington's disease. We crossed a mouse harboring a transgene directing cre-recombinase expression primarily to postnatal, dorsal striatal medium spiny neurons, to a mouse containing a floxed TrkB allele (fB) mouse designed for deletion of TrkB to determine its role in the adult striatum. |
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