Prolonged physiological entrapment of glutamate in the synaptic cleft of cerebellar unipolar brush cells

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1320-1333

  Kinney, Gregory A ^a   Overstreet, Linda S ^a   Slater, N Traverse ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MEMBRANE; BRAIN SLICE; BRUSH BORDER; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030759961     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.3.1320     Document Type: Article

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