Expression of a variant form of the glutamate transporter GLT1 in neuronal cultures and in neurons and astrocytes in the rat brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2142-2152

  Chen, Weizhi ^a   Aoki, Chiye ^b   Mahadomrongkul, Veeravan ^b   Gruber, Christian E ^c   Wang, Guang Jian ^a,d   Blitzblau, Rachel ^a,e   Irwin, Nina ^a   Rosenberg, Paul A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Invitrogen Corporation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Dihydrokainate; Excitotoxicity; Glutamate; Presynaptic; Synapse; Transport

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1A; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1B; GLUTAMIC ACID; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTOXICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 0037088930     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-06-02142.2002     Document Type: Article

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