Egr3, which belongs to a family
of immediate early genes known as early growth response (Egr) genes, is another target gene for BDNF.
The same clearing and imaging pipeline is applied to a transgenic mouse strain where fluorescent proteins are expressed under the promoter
of the immediate early gene c - fos (TRAP mice, Guenthner et al. 2013).
The expression
of the immediate early gene c - Fos was used to assess integrity of retinal function following iPS - RPE transplantation.
Not exact matches
In the neurons
of sedentary mice only, the cold water spurred an increase in «
immediate early genes,» or short - lived
genes that are rapidly turned on when a neuron fires.
Induction
of the
immediate -
early gene c - fos was observed after a nighttime light pulse in both wild - type and knockout mice.
The serum response factor and a putative novel transcription factor regulate expression
of the
immediate -
early gene Arc / Arg3.1 in neurons.
First, we identified an A. cerana homolog (Acks = Apis cerana kakusei)
of kakusei, an
immediate early gene that we previously identified from A. mellifera, and showed that Acks has characteristics similar to kakusei and can be used to visualize active brain regions in A. cerana.
In the present study, to elucidate the neural mechanism underlying this behavior, we used an
immediate early gene (IEG) to map the active brain regions
of Japanese honeybee workers during the formation
of a defensive bee ball.
Upon engraftment into the medial prefrontal cortex in rats, the homolog
of the human anterior cingulate cortex, the cells assumed neuronal morphologies, expressed monoaminergic - specific proteins, and seemed to functionally integrate, as assessed by the upregulation
of the
immediate -
early gene, cfos.