Transient neuromotor phenotype in transgenic spastic mice expressing low levels of glycine receptor β-subunit: An animal model of startle disease

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-32

  Becker, Lore ^d   Hartenstein, Bettina ^a   Schenkel, Johannes ^a   Kuhse, Jochen ^b,c   Betz, Heinrich ^b   Weiher, Hans ^d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Glycine receptor; Hereditary hyperekplexia; spa spa TG456 mice; Startle syndrome

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARTLE EPILEPSY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPERKINESIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPINAL CORD; STARTLE REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TREMOR;

EID: 0033967649     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00877.x     Document Type: Article

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