Male transgenic glycine receptor α1 (S267Q) mutant mice display a hyperekplexia-like increase in acoustic startle responses

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 215-222

  Findlay, G S ^a   Harris, R A ^a   Blednov, Y A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Chloride flux; Ectopic; Glycine; GlyR; Mice; Strychnine sensitive; Taurine; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE 36; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ALPHA1; STRYCHNINE; TAURINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOTOPE LABELING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD; STARTLE EPILEPSY; STARTLE REFLEX; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; STARTLE REACTION; TAURINE;

MUS MUSCULUS; STRYCHNOS TOXIFERA;

EID: 26444462107     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2005.08.011     Document Type: Article

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