Impaired cerebellar synaptic plasticity and motor performance in mice lacking the mGluR4 subtype of metabotropic glutamate receptor

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 6364-6373

  Pekhletski, Roman ^a,b   Gerlai, Robert ^a,c   Overstreet, Linda S ^d   Huang, Xi Ping ^a,b   Agopyan, Nadia ^a,c   Slater, N Traverse ^d   Abramow Newerly, Wanda ^a,c   Roder, John C ^a,c   Hampson, David R ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MRC Nerve Cell and Synapse Group   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

gene targeting; L AP4; parallel fiber; post tetanic potentiation; Purkinje cell; synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4 PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POST TETANIC POTENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029814483     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-20-06364.1996     Document Type: Article

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