Glycine receptors: What gets in and why?

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 935-936

  Barry, Peter H ^a   Schofield, Peter R ^b   Moorhouse, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glycine receptor channel; Ion channels; Ion permeation; Ion selectivity; Ligand gated ion channel superfamily

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ANION; ARGININE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; RECOMBINANT RECEPTOR;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDRATION; ION CONDUCTANCE; ION PERMEABILITY; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROTRANSMISSION;

ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; LIGANDS; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE;

EID: 0032744647     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1681.1999.03149.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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