Ethanol sensitivity of GABAergic currents in cerebellar granule neurons is not increased by a single amino acid change (R100Q) in the α6 GABAA receptor subunit

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 323, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 684-691

  Botta, Paolo ^a   Mameli, Manuel ^a,e   Floyd, Kirsten L ^b   Radcliffe, Richard A ^c,d   Valenzuela, C Fernando ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TETRODOTOXIN;

ALCOHOL TOLERANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GRANULE CELL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 35548959616     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.107.127894     Document Type: Article

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