Molecular and functional diversity of the expanding GABA-A receptor gene family

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 868, Issue , 1999, Pages 645-653

  Whiting, Paul J ^a   Bonnert, Timothy P ^a   McKernan, Ruth M ^a   Farrar, Sophie ^a   Le Bourdellès, Beatrice ^a   Heavens, Robert P ^a   Smith, David W ^a   Hewson, Louise ^a   Rigby, Michael R ^a   Sirinathsinghji, Dalip J S ^a   Thompson, Sally A ^a   Wafford, Keith A ^a  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CHLORIDE; ION CHANNEL; NEUROTRANSMITTER; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RECEPTOR GENE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033009936     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb11341.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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