Clustering of the group III metabotropic glutamate receptor 4a at parallel fiber synaptic terminals in the rat cerebellar molecular layer

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-74

  Mateos, José María ^a   Elezgarai, Izaskun ^a   Benítez, Rocío ^a   Osorio, Alexandra ^a   Bilbao, Aurora ^a   Azkue, Jon Jatsu ^a   Kuhn, Rainer ^b   Knöpfel, Thomas ^c   Grandes, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Electron microscopy; Excitatory neurotransmission; G proteins; Immunogold; Pre embedding immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CELL LINE; CEREBELLUM; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0032845643     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(99)00066-8     Document Type: Article

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