Spermine and philanthotoxin potentiate excitatory amino acid responses of Xenopus oocytes injected with rat and chick brain RNA

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 51-56

  Brackley, P ^a   Goodnow Jr , R ^b   Nakanishi, K ^b   Sudan, H L ^a   Usherwood, P N R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Chemistry Columbia University in the City of New York ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid receptor; Philanthotoxin; Potentiation; Spermine; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PHILANTHOTOXIN; SPERMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EMBRYO; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOAD; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL; ASPARTIC ACID; BEE VENOMS; BRAIN; CHICKENS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROINJECTIONS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROTOXINS; OOCYTES; OXADIAZOLES; POLY A; QUISQUALIC ACID; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMINE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WASP VENOMS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0025330885     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(90)90427-B     Document Type: Article

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