RNA editing (Q/R site) and flop/flip splicing of AMPA receptor transcripts in young and old brains

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 599-606

  Carlson, Noel G ^a,b   Howard, Jill ^b   Gahring, Lorise C ^a,b   Rogers, Scott W ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agarose gel electrophoresis; Densitometry; GluR, AMPA, RT PCR, Restriction endonuclease

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; RNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; AGED; AGING; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENE EXPRESSION; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RESTRICTION MAPPING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034622220     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(00)00127-5     Document Type: Article

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