Differential organization of γ-aminobutyric acid type A and glycine receptors in the somatic and dendritic compartments of rat abducens motoneurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 504, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-126

  Lorenzo, Louis Etienne ^a   Russier, Michaël ^a   Barbe, Annick ^a   Fritschy, Jean Marc ^b   Bras, Hélène ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cellular imaging; Colocalization; Confocal microscopy; Electron microscopy; Eye movements; Gephyrin; Inhibitory transmission; Molecule trafficking; Motoneurons; Relation structure function

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA5; GEPHYRIN; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ALPHA1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SOMATIC CELL;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DENDRITES; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34548226343     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21442     Document Type: Article

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