Increased glutamate uptake and GLAST expression by cyclic AMP in retinal glial cells

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 359-363

  Sakai, Tsutomu ^a   Yoshitoshi, Takashi ^a   Nagai, Yukiko ^a   Kitahara, Kenji ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BUCLADESINE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE II; CYCLIC AMP; GLUTAMATE ASPARTATE TRANSPORTER PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; HISTONE H3; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GLAST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LYSATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCITOTOXICITY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RETINA CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BUCLADESINE; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE II; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; CYCLIC AMP; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; NEUROGLIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VIMENTIN;

EID: 33646263608     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0060-1     Document Type: Article

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