Altered synaptic clustering of GABAA receptors in mice lacking dystrophin (mdx mice)

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4457-4462

  Knuesel, Irene ^a   Mastrocola, Mario ^a   Zuellig, Richard A ^a   Bornhauser, Beat ^a   Schaub, Marcus C ^a   Fritschy, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Gephyrin; Hippocampus; Immunofluorescence staining; Postsynaptic density; aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CARRIER PROTEIN; DYSTROPHIN; GEPHYRIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROMOLECULE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIC MOUSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DYSTROPHIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED MDX; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, ANIMAL; NEOCORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPSES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033258164     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00887.x     Document Type: Article

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