Regional and laminar differences in synaptic localization of NMDA receptor subunit NR1 splice variants in rat visual cortex and hippocampus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 368, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 335-355

  Johnson, Randall R ^a   Jiang, Xiaoping ^a   Burkhalter, Andreas ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

excitatory amino acid receptors; excitatory amino acids; presynaptic NMDA receptor; subcellular localization; ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SYNAPSE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0029987846     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960506)368:3<335::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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