Mouse Strain-Specific Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Expression by Inhibitory Interneurons and Astrocytes in the Dorsal Hippocampus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 468, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 334-346

  Gahring, Lorise C ^a,b   Persiyanov, Karina ^a,b   Dunn, Diane ^b   Weiss, Robert ^b   Meyer, Erin L ^b   Rogers, Scott W ^a,b  

^a Education and Clinical Center   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Hippocampus; Immunohistochemistry; Mouse strains; Nicotine; Nicotinic receptors

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HAPLOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURAL INHIBITION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0347019538     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10943     Document Type: Article

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