Molecules and membrane activity: Single-cell RT-PCR and patch-clamp recording from central neurons

Neuroanatomical Tract-Tracing 3: Molecules, Neurons, and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 142-174

  Griffith, William H ^a   Han, Sun Ho ^b   McCool, Brian A ^c   Murchison, David ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Amygdala; Basal forebrain; Calcium binding proteins; ChAT; fura 2 fluorescence; GAD; Ion channel subunits; Receptor subunits

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248998678     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28942-9_5     Document Type: Chapter

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