Synaptic control of glycine and GABA(A) receptors and gephyrin expression in cultured motoneurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 7434-7449

  Lévi, Sabine ^a   Chesnoy Marchais, Dominique ^a   Sieghart, Werner ^b   Triller, Antoine ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglia; GABA(A) receptor; Gephyrin; Glycine receptor; Motoneurons; Picrotoxinin; Presynaptic innervation; Spinal neurons; Strychnine

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; GEPHYRIN; GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; INNERVATION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0033198199     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-17-07434.1999     Document Type: Article

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