Calcium influx via L-type voltage-gated channels mediates the delayed, elevated increases in steady-state c-fos mRNA levels in cerebellar granule cells exposed to excitotoxic levels of glutamate

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 641-652

  Griffiths, Roger ^a   Ritchie, Lyndsay ^a   Lidwell, Kate ^a   Grieve, Angus ^a   Malcolm, Craig S ^b   Scott, Mary ^b   Meredith, Clive ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BIBRA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

c fos mRNA; Calcium; Cerebellar granule cells; Excitatory amino acid; Excitotoxicity; L type calcium channels

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NIFEDIPINE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; GRANULE CELL; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; STEADY STATE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENES, FOS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMEOSTASIS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEUROTOXINS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032526361     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19980615)52:6<641::AID-JNR3>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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