Number, density, and surface/cytoplasmic distribution of GABA transporters at presynaptic structures of knock-in mice carrying GABA transporter subtype 1-green fluorescent protein fusions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 10251-10266

  Chiu, Chi Sung ^a   Jensen, Kimmo ^c   Sokolova, Irina ^a   Wang, Dan ^b   Li, Ming ^a   Deshpande, Purnima ^a   Davidson, Norman ^a   Mody, Istvan ^c   Quick, Michael W ^b   Quake, Stephen R ^a   Lester, Henry A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GABA; Green fluorescent protein; Knock in; Mouse; Synapse; Transporter

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER; CARRIER PROTEIN; GABA TRANSPORTER SUBTYPE 1; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOTINYLATION; BRAIN SLICE; CALIBRATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURKINJE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036897386     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-23-10251.2002     Document Type: Article

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