Receptors with opposing functions are in postsynaptic microdomains under one presynaptic terminal

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-132

  Tsen, Guoshan ^a   Williams, Brian ^a   Allaire, Pauline ^b   Zhou, Yu Dong ^a   Ikonomov, Ognian ^c   Kondova, Ivanela ^d   Jacob, Michele H ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Blackstone Millville Regional High School   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CILIARY GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, NEUTRAL; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICKENS; CHOROID; GANGLIA, PARASYMPATHETIC; GLYCINE; GLYCINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOSINE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034000491     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72066     Document Type: Article

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