Excitable membranes and synaptic transmission: Postsynaptic mechanisms. Localization of α-internexin in the postsynaptic density of the rat brain

Brain Research

Volumn 765, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 74-80

  Suzuki, Tatsuo ^a   Mitake, Shigehisa ^b   Okumura Noji, Kuniko ^b   Shimizu, Hideo ^b   Tada, Toyohiro ^b   Fujii, Toshihiro ^c  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

internexin; Postsynaptic density

Indexed keywords

PROTEASE NEXIN I;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARRIER PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030869946     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00492-7     Document Type: Article

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