GABAergic and glutamatergic axons innervate the axon initial segment and organize GABAA receptor clusters of cultured hippocampal pyramidal cells

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 456, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 361-374

  Christie, Sean B ^a   De Blas, Angel L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrites; Glutamate receptor; Hippocampus; Pyramidal neuron; Synapse; Synaptic competition

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR; BRAIN PROTEIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPSES; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0037450353     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10535     Document Type: Article

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