Activity-dependent regulation of vesicular glutamate and GABA transporters: A means to scale quantal size

Neurochemistry International

Volumn 48, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 643-649

  Erickson, Jeffrey D ^a   De Gois, Stéphanie ^a   Varoqui, Hélène ^a   Schafer, Martin K H ^b   Weihe, Eberhard ^b  

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

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

GABA; Glutamate; Homeostatic plasticity; Quantal size; Synaptic plasticity; Synaptic vesicle; Vesicular transporter; VGLUT1; VGLUT2; VIAAT

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; ROSE BENGAL; SYNAPSIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL LEVEL; CELL MATURATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DOWN REGULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPSE VESICLE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLUTAMIC ACID; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 33645865868     PISSN: 01970186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuint.2005.12.029     Document Type: Article

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