Ion channel structure: The structure and function of glutamate receptor ion channels

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 91-101

  Madden, Dean R ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARNESS;

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; LIGAND;

ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LIGANDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036483593     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn725     Document Type: Article

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