Independent assembly and subcellular targeting of GABA(A)-receptor subtypes demonstrated in mouse hippocampal and olfactory neurons in vivo

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 249, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 99-102

  Fritschy, Jean Marc ^a   Johnson, Dabney K ^b   Mohler, Hanns ^a   Rudolph, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosomal deletion; GABA(A) receptor subunit assembly; Immunofluorescent staining; Mouse mutants; P Locus; Subunit gene

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; GENE LOCUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TARGET CELL;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 0032546906     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00397-8     Document Type: Article

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