Neuronal subtype-specific expression directed by the GABA(A) receptor δ subunit gene promoter/upstream region in transgenic mice and in cultured cells

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 197-211

  Lüscher, Bernhard ^a   Häuselmann, Remo ^a   Leitgeb, Sabine ^a   Rülicke, Thomas ^b   Fritschy, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

GABA(A) receptor; Neuron specific gene expression; Primary culture; Transfection; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; EMBRYO; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; REPORTER GENE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THALAMUS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0343632347     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00242-8     Document Type: Article

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