GABAergic Terminals Are Required for Postsynaptic Clustering of Dystrophin but Not of GABAA Receptors and Gephyrin

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4805-4813

  Brünig, Ina ^a   Suter, Anthi ^a   Knuesel, Irene ^a,c   Lüscher, Bernhard ^b   Fritschy, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Clustering; Dystrophin; Dystrophin associated protein complex; GABAergic synapse; Hippocampus; Immunofluorescence; Presynaptic signaling

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; DYSTROPHIN; GEPHYRIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DYSTROPHIN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037096375     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-12-04805.2002     Document Type: Article

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