EXP-1 is an excitatory GABA-gated cation channel

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1145-1152

  Beg, Asim A ^a   Jorgensen, Erik M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ANION CHANNEL; CATION CHANNEL; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN EXP 1; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL TYPE; CHANNEL GATING; INTESTINE MUSCLE; ION PERMEABILITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; BARIUM COMPOUNDS; BICUCULLINE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CATIONS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CHLORIDES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GANGLIONIC BLOCKERS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MECAMYLAMINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; PICROTOXIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SODIUM; TRANSFECTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0242353157     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1136     Document Type: Article

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