Selective electrical silencing of mammalian neurons in vitro by the use of invertebrate ligand-gated chloride channels

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 7373-7379

  Slimko, Eric M ^a   McKinney, Sheri ^a   Anderson, David J ^a   Davidson, Norman ^a   Lester, Henry A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloride channel; ECFP; EGFP; Excitability; EYFP; Hippocampal neurons; Silencing; Sindbis virus; Transfection of neurons

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHLORIDE; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IVERMECTIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHANNEL GATING; CHLORIDE CURRENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE THERAPY; IN VITRO STUDY; INVERTEBRATE; MOUSE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINDBIS VIRUS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0036758648     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-17-07373.2002     Document Type: Article

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