Expression of NR2 receptor subunit in rat somatic sensory cortex: Synaptic distribution and colocalization with NR1 and PSD-95

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 410, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 599-611

  Valtschanoff, Juli G ^a   Burette, Alain ^a   Wenthold, Robert J ^b   Weinberg, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring proteins; Glutamate; NMDA; Postembedding immunocytochemistry; Postsynaptic density; Scaffold

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE BINDING; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033538895     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990809)410:4<599::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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