Immediate Early Genes in Sensory Processing, Cognitive Performance and Neurological Disorders

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pinaud, Raphael (Editor), Tremere, Liisa A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Molecular biology.; Neurosciences.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.; Molecular Medicine.

Immediate early genes (IEGs) are a class of genes that are rapidly expressed without new protein synthesis and, in most cases, in direct response to synaptic input. The most widely studied IEGs in neurobiology encode transcription factors, with two popular examples being c-fos and NGFI-A (a.k.a., zi...