G-protein-coupled inwardly rectifying potassium channels are targets of alcohol action

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1084-1090

  Lewohl, Joanne M ^a   Wilson, Walter R ^a   Mayfield, R Dayne ^b   Brozowski, Susan J ^b   Morrisett, Richard A ^a   Harris, R Adron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; GRANULE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALCOHOLS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; ETHANOL; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HETEROTRIMERIC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; OOCYTES; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN KINASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033490206     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16012     Document Type: Article

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