Retinal lesions induce differential changes in the expression of flip and flop isoforms of the glutamate receptor subunit GluR1 in the chick optic tectum

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 341-346

  Pires, Raquel S ^a   Rebouças, Nancy A ^a   Duvoisin, Robert M ^b   Britto, Luiz R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

AMPA; Neurotransmitter; Receptor subunit; Splice variant; Visual pathway

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RETINA; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0034728604     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(00)00016-4     Document Type: Article

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