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Sensory Neurons and Plasticity: The Role of Immediate Early Genes

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The protooncogenes c-fos and c-jun, code for transcriptionally active nuclear proteins that may play a central role in the long term response of neurons and glial cells to stimulation and damage. Fos and Jun are also ‘immediate early genes’ (IEGs) which were originally described as a class of genes that were rapidly induced in cells stimulated with growth factors.11

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De Felipe, C., Jenkins, R., Hunt, S.P. (1994). Sensory Neurons and Plasticity: The Role of Immediate Early Genes. In: Urban, L. (eds) Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing. NATO ASI Series, vol 79. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78762-1_19

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