Inborn errors of neurotransmitter receptors

Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 374-380

  Surtees, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM ION; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; CYCLIC AMP; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PHENOBARBITAL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHANNEL GATING; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EATON LAMBERT SYNDROME; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NARCOLEPSY; NERVE CELL; POINT MUTATION; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; STARTLE EPILEPSY;

HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER;

EID: 0032968781     PISSN: 01418955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005591820414     Document Type: Conference Paper

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