Identification and characterization of the high-affinity choline transporter

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 120-125

  Okuda, Takashi ^a   Haga, Tatsuya ^a   Kanai, Yoshikatsu ^b,c   Endou, Hitoshi ^b   Ishihara, Takeshi ^d   Katsura, Isao ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINE UPTAKE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTOSOME; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHO CELLS; CHOLINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HEMICHOLINIUM 3; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE INHIBITORS; OOCYTES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM;

EID: 0034004554     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72059     Document Type: Article

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