The Glutamate Transporter GLT1a Is Expressed in Excitatory Axon Terminals of Mature Hippocampal Neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1136-1148

  Chen, Weizhi ^a   Mahadomrongkul, Veeravan ^c   Berger, Urs V ^a,f   Bassan, Merav ^a   DeSilva, Tara ^a   Tanaka, Kohichi ^d,e   Irwin, Nina ^b   Aoki, Chiye ^c   Rosenberg, Paul A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UB In Situ   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Excitotoxicity; PDZ domain; Synapse; Trafficking; Uptake

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; MESSENGER RNA; PDZ PROTEIN; PROTEIN GLT1A; PROTEIN GLT1B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0842325647     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1586-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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