The VAChT/ChAT 'cholinergic gene locus': New aspects of genetic and vesicular regulation of cholinergic function

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue , 1996, Pages 69-82

  Erickson, J D ^a   Weihe, E ^a   Schafer, M K M ^a   Neale, E ^a   Williamson, L ^a   Bonner, T I ^a   Tao Cheng, J H ^a   Eiden, L E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TORPEDO; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0030447447     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(08)62089-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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