The monoamine neurons of the rat brain preferentially express a splice variant of α(1B) subunit of the N-type calcium channel

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1718-1723

  Ghasemzadeh, M Behnam ^a   Pierce, R Christopher ^a   Kalivas, Peter W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

(1B) subunit; Monoamine neurons; N type calcium channel; Striatum; Substantia nigra; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONOAMINE NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CALCIUM CHANNELS; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032823579     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.731718.x     Document Type: Article

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