Development of the GABA system in organotypic culture of hippocampal and cerebellar slices from a 67-kDa isoform of glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD67)-deficient mice

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 233-237

  Ji, Fengyun ^a   Obata, Kunihiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABA; Cerebellum; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Hippocampus; Imunohistochemistry; Mouse; Organotypic culture

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ENZYME POLYMORPHISM; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL;

EID: 0032891627     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(99)00005-X     Document Type: Article

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