Roles and rules of kainate receptors in synaptic transmission

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 481-495

  Lerma, Juan ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; EPILEPSY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PURKINJE CELL; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, KAINIC ACID; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0038380386     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1118     Document Type: Article

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