Is there more to GABA than synaptic inhibition?

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 715-727

  Owens, David F ^a   Kriegstein, Arnold R ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b Box 31 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURAL INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, GABA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036717789     PISSN: 14710048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn919     Document Type: Review

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