Single-cell RT-PCR analysis of GIRK channels expressed in rat locus coeruleus and nucleus basalis neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 358, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-67

  Kawano, Takeharu ^a   Zhao, Peng ^a   Nakajima, Shigehiro ^a   Nakajima, Yasuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic neuron; G protein coupled inward rectifier potassium channels (GIRK); Kir 3; Locus coeruleus; Noradrenergic neuron; Nucleus basalis; Single cell RT PCR

Indexed keywords

INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.2; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.1; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.3; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT KIR6.4; LOCUS CERULEUS; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; G PROTEIN-COUPLED INWARDLY-RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNELS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LOCUS COERULEUS; NEURONS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 1542315481     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.12.104     Document Type: Article

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