Alternative splicing of the glutamate transporter EAAT2 (GLT-1)

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 68-70

  Meyer, T ^a   Munch C ^a   Knappenberger, B ^a   Liebau, S ^a   Volkel H ^a   Ludolph, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Excitatory amino acids; Genetics; Glutamate; Neurodegeneration; Transporter

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; GENE ASSIGNMENT; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0344074653     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00973-7     Document Type: Article

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