Stressor-related impairment of synaptic transmission in hippocampal slices from α-synuclein knockout mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3085-3091

  Martín, Eduardo D ^a   González García, Carmen ^a   Milán, Miguel ^b   Fariñas, Isabel ^b   Ceña, Valentín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

4 aminopyridine, adenosine, hypoxia, Parkinson's disease; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; ADENOSINE; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

4-AMINOPYRIDINE; ADENOSINE; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNUCLEINS; TETRODOTOXIN; THEOPHYLLINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 10844235618     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03801.x     Document Type: Article

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