Expression of a putative vesicular acetylcholine transporter facilitates quantal transmitter packaging

Neuron

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 815-826

  Song, Hong Jun ^a   Ming, Guo Li ^a   Fon, Edward ^b   Bellocchio, Elizabeth ^b   Edwards, Robert H ^b   Poo, Mu Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; VESAMICOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPORT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030968854     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80320-7     Document Type: Article

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