Low expression of the ClC-2 chloride channel during postnatal development: A mechanism for the paradoxical depolarizing action of GABA and glycine in the hippocampus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1425, 1999, Pages 1207-1213

  Mladinić, Miranda ^a   Becchetti, Andrea ^a   Didelon, Frédéric ^a   Bradbury, Andrew ^a   Cherubini, Enrico ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Chloride channel; GABA(A) receptors; Glycine; Neonatal brain; Tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHLORIDE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; GLYCINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEPOLARIZATION; EXON; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOTHESIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 0033594938     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0764     Document Type: Article

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