Glycine, GABA and their transporters in pancreatic islets of Langerhans: Evidence for a paracrine transmitter interplay

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 117, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3749-3758

  Gammelsaeter, Runhild ^a   Frøyland, Marianne ^b   Aragón, Carmen ^c   Danbolt, Niels Christian ^a   Fortin, Doris ^d   Storm Mathisen, Jon ^a   Davanger, Svend ^a,b   Gundersen, Vidar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aminobutyric acid; Glycine; Pancreas; Paracrine; Uptake

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CARRIER PROTEIN; GLUCAGON ANTIBODY; GLYCINE; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 1; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 2; INSULIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN GAT1; PROTEIN GAT3; PROTEIN VGAT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBEDDING; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME RELEASE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LANGERHANS CELL; MACROMOLECULE; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SECRETORY GRANULE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; GABA PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUCAGON; GLYCINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PANCREAS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4444251096     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01209     Document Type: Article

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