Ablation of BRaf impairs neuronal differentiation in the postnatal hippocampus and cerebellum.

This study focuses on the role of the kinase BRaf in postnatal brain development. Mice expressing truncated, non-functional BRaf in neural stem cell-derived brain tissue demonstrate alterations in the cerebellum, with decreased sizes and fuzzy borders of the glomeruli in the granule cell layer. In a...

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Main Authors: Verena Pfeiffer, Rudolf Götz, Chaomei Xiang, Guadelupe Camarero, Attila Braun, Yina Zhang, Robert Blum, Helmut Heinsen, Bernhard Nieswandt, Ulf R Rapp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3591433?pdf=render