EAAT4, a glutamate transporter with properties of a chloride channel, is predominantly localized in Purkinje cell dendrites, and forms parasagittal compartments in rat cerebellum

Neuroscience

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 929-933

  Nagao, S ^a   Kwak, S ^a   Kanazawa, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

ion channel; parallel fiber; parasagittal banding; rat cerebellum

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE ISOLATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030993144     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00021-3     Document Type: Letter

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