New players tip the scales in the balance between excitatory and inhibitory synapses

Molecular Pain

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Levinson, Joshua N ^a   El Husseini, Alaa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUROLIGIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

AUTISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 30344479766     PISSN: 17448069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-1-12     Document Type: Review

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