Functional Excitatory Synapses in HEK293 Cells Expressing Neuroligin and Glutamate Receptors

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3950-3957

  Fu, Zhanyan ^a   Washbourne, Philip ^b   Ortinski, Pavel ^a   Vicini, Stefano ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 6 NITRO 7 SULFAMOYLBENZO[F]QUINOXALINE 2,3 DIONE; AMPA RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GUANYLATE KINASE; MAGNESIUM ION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROLIGIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; RNA; TETRODOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; EMBRYO; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CELL; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; DNA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSES; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0346121341     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00647.2003     Document Type: Article

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