Motor dysfunction and altered synaptic transmission at the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapse in mice lacking potassium channels Kv3.1 and Kv3.3

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 7677-7684

  Matsukawa, Hiroshi ^a   Wolf, Alexander M ^a   Matsushita, Shinichi ^a   Joho, Rolf H ^a,b   Knöpfel, Thomas ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential repolarization; Cerebellar cortex; Kv channels; Parallel fibers; Presynaptic mechanisms; Synaptic transmission; Voltage sensitive dyes

Indexed keywords

VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FACILITATION; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GRANULE CELL; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; MYOCLONUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV3.1; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KV3.3; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TREMOR; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0041920910     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-20-07677.2003     Document Type: Article

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