Developmental changes in EPSC quantal size and quantal content at a central glutamatergic synapse in rat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 511, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 861-869

  Bellingham, Mark C ^a   Lim, Rebecca ^a   Walmsley, Bruce ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID;

AGE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTEROVENTRAL COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CELL KINETICS; CELL MATURATION; DECAY TIME CONSTANT; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; KINETICS; NERVE FIBERS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0032530730     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.861bg.x     Document Type: Article

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