Glycine receptors from long-sleep and short-sleep mice: Genetic differences in drug sensitivity

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 169-172

  Mascia, Maria Paola ^a,c   Bleck, Virginia G ^b   Harris, R Adron ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Genetics; Glycine; Long sleep mouse; Neurosteroid; Propofol; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLYCINE; PREGNENOLONE; PROPOFOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SHEEP; SPINAL CORD; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ETHANOL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GLYCINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OOCYTES; PREGNENOLONE; PROPOFOL; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SLEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; STRYCHNINE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031127037     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00008-9     Document Type: Article

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