Ultrastructural distribution of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit in rat hippocampus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 7993-8003

  Fabian Fine, Ruth ^a,b,e   Skehel, Paul ^b   Errington, Mick L ^b   Davies, Heather A ^a   Sher, Emanuele ^c   Stewart, Michael G ^a   Fine, Alan ^b,d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptors; A 1 42; Dendritic spines; GABA; Glutamate; Immuno electron microscopy; Nicotine; Postsynaptic density

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPHA-BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; BUNGAROTOXIN; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNALIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SECTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BUNGAROTOXINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; NEURONS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0035886019     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-20-07993.2001     Document Type: Article

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