Spontaneous IPSCs and glycine receptors with slow kinetics in wide-field amacrine cells in the mature rat retina

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 581, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 203-219

  Veruki, Margaret Lin ^a   Gill, Silje Bakken ^a   Hartveit, Espen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR; STRYCHNINE; GLYCINE ALPHA2BETA RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; INHIBITION KINETICS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WHOLE CELL; ANALYTIC METHOD; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; NON STATIONARY NOISE ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC CURRENT; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

AMACRINE CELLS; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GLYCINE AGENTS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RETINA; STRYCHNINE;

EID: 34248166034     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.127316     Document Type: Article

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