High affinity glutamate transporters: Regulation of expression and activity

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 6-15

  Gegelashvili, Georgi ^a   Schousboe, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BIOGENIC AMINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; DOPAMINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN RADICAL; PHORBOL ESTER; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSLATION; SECOND MESSENGER; SHORT SURVEY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030840881     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.52.1.6     Document Type: Short Survey

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