Expression of a foreign g-protein coupled receptor modulates the excitability of the peptidergic bag cell neurons of Aplysia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 143-146

  Whim, Matthew D ^a,b   Kaczmarek, Leonard K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Afterhyperpolarization; Aplysia; Bag cell neuron; Depolarizing afterpotential; Expression vector; Heterologous expression; Metabotropic glutamate receptor

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

AFTERDISCHARGE; ANIMAL CELL; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SECOND MESSENGER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLOLEUCINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE;

EID: 0032564685     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00850-7     Document Type: Article

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