Channel opening locks agonist onto the GABA(C) receptor

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 219-225

  Chang, Yongchang ^a   Weiss, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID C RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CHANNEL GATING; DISSOCIATION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; LIGAND BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DIFFUSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; KINETICS; OOCYTES; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033359997     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6313     Document Type: Article

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