A deficit of functional GABA(A) receptors in neurons of β3 subunit knockout mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 81-84

  Krasowski, Matthew D ^a   Rick, Caroline E ^a   Harrison, Neil L ^a   Firestone, Leonard L ^b   Homanics, Gregg E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Gene targeting; Knockout mouse; Loreclezole; Pharmacology; Zinc; Aminobutyric acid type A receptor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; LORECLEZOLE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; ZINC;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CLEFT PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL GANGLION;

EID: 0032498195     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00929-4     Document Type: Article

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