Activity-dependent homeostatic specification of transmitter expression in embryonic neurons

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6991, 2004, Pages 523-530

  Borodinsky, Laura N ^a   Root, Cory M ^a   Cronin, Julia A ^a   Sann, Sharon B ^a   Gu, Xiaonan ^a   Spitzer, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CELL CULTURE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PROTEINS;

CELL IDENTITY; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTERS;

NEUROLOGY;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; VERATRIDINE;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, INWARDLY RECTIFYING; RATS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPINAL CORD; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2942532192     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02518     Document Type: Article

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