Cloning and characterization of alternative mRNA forms for the rat metabotropic glutamate receptors mGluR7 and mGluR8

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3629-3641

  Corti, Corrado ^a   Restituito, Sophie ^b   Rimland, Joseph M ^a   Brabet, Isabelle ^b   Corsi, Mauro ^a   Pin, Jean Philippe ^b   Ferraguti, Francesco ^a,c  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^b CCIPE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; G protein; HEK 293 cells; In situ hybridization; Potassium channels; RT PCR; Xenopus oocytes

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BRAIN RECEPTOR; BUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; SERINE DERIVATIVE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY BULB; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INOSITOL PHOSPHATES; KIDNEY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS;

EID: 0032449643     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00371.x     Document Type: Article

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