Glycine receptors: Recent insights into their structural organization and functional diversity

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1600-1610

  Betz, Heinrich ^a   Laube, Bodo ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Homology modelling; Hyperekplexia; Ligand gated ion channel; Pain sensitization; Synaptic inhibition

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGAND BINDING; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR GENE; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE;

STRYCHNOS TOXIFERA;

EID: 33745033309     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2006.03908.x     Document Type: Review

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