Facilitation versus depression in cultured hippocampal neurons determined by targeting of Ca2+ channel Cavβ4 versus Cavβ2 subunits to synaptic terminals

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 489-502

  Xie, Mian ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Han, Jing ^a   Vogt, Daniel L ^a   Wittemann, Silke ^a   Mark, Melanie D ^a   Herlitze, Stefan ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL BETA2 SUBUNIT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BETA4 SUBUNIT; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; FACILITATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PAIRED PULSE FACILITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOSOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34547558892     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 00219525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200702072     Document Type: Article

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