Homeostatic scaling of vesicular glutamate and GABA transporter expression in rat neocortical circuits

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 31, 2005, Pages 7121-7133

  De Gois, Stéphanie ^a   Schäfer, Martin K H ^b   Defamie, Norah ^a   Chen, Chu ^a   Ricci, Anthony ^a   Weihe, Eberhard ^b   Varoqui, Hélène ^a   Erickson, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortex; GABA; Glutamate; Homeostatic plasticity; Presynaptic; Regulation; Synaptic plasticity; Synaptic vesicle; Trafficking; VGLUT1; VGLUT2; VIAAT

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CELL PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; SYNAPTIC PROTEIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UPREGULATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; HOMEOSTASIS; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPSES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; UP-REGULATION; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 23444455504     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5221-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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