Increased number of synaptic GABA(A) receptors underlies potentiation at hippocampal inhibitory synapses

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6698, 1998, Pages 172-177

  Nusser, Zoltan ^a,b   Hájos, Norbert ^b,c   Somogyi, Peter ^a   Mody, Istvan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032505048     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25999     Document Type: Article

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