N-terminal splice variants of the NMDAR1 glutamate receptor subunit: Differential expression in human and monkey brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-48

  Meoni, P ^a   Bunnemann, B H ^b   Trist, D G ^b   Bowery, N G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glutamate receptor; Human brain; In situ hybridisation; Macaca fascicularis; N Methyl D aspartate receptor; N Methyl D aspartate receptor 1 subunit; Splice variants

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032511012     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00391-7     Document Type: Article

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