Sustained upregulation in embryonic spinal neurons of a Kv3.1 potassium channel gene encoding a delayed rectifier current

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 347-356

  Gurantz, Devorah ^a   Lautermilch, Nathan J ^a   Watt, Stephen D ^a   Spitzer, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development of excitability; In vivo Kv gene expression; Single cell RT PCR; Spinal cord neurons; Xenopus Kv3.1 gene

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OOCYTES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHAW POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0034651929     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(20000215)42:3<347::AID-NEU6>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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