Ectopic expression of the GABAA receptor α6 subunit in hippocampal pyramidal neurons produces extrasynaptic receptors and an increased tonic inhibition

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 530-549

  Wisden, William ^a   Cope, D ^b   Klausberger, T ^b   Hauer, B ^c   Sinkkonen, S T ^d   Tretter, V ^c,g   Lujan, R ^b,h   Jones, A ^e   Korpi, E R ^d   Mody, I ^f   Sieghart, W ^c   Somogyi, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h University of Castilla La Mancha   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cerebral cortex; Extrasynaptic receptor; Thy 1.2 gene promoter; Tonic inhibition; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; LIGAND; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL MEMBRANE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT DYES; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGANDS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROSENCEPHALON; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SYNAPSES; TISSUE EMBEDDING;

EID: 0036754273     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3908(02)00151-X     Document Type: Article

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