Glutamate transporter GLT-1 is transiently localized on growing axons of the mouse spinal cord before establishing astrocytic expression

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 5706-5713

  Yamada, Keiko ^a   Watanabe, Masahiko ^a   Shibata, Takashi ^a   Nagashima, Masabumi ^a   Tanaka, Kohichi ^b   Inoue, Yoshiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Development; Electron microscopy; GLT 1; Glutamate transporter; Growth cone; Immunoblot; Immunohistochemistry; In situ hybridization; Mouse; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENOLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 0032146774     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-15-05706.1998     Document Type: Article

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