A novel physiological mechanism of glycine-induced immunomodulation: Na+-coupled amino acid transporter currents in cultured brain macrophages

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 559, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-40

  Schilling, Tom ^a   Eder, Claudia ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; AMOXAPINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHLORIDE ION; FLUORINE DERIVATIVE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR AGONIST; ISOBUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; METHYL GROUP; PHENYL GROUP; PROPANE; SARCOSINE; SODIUM ION; STRYCHNINE; TAURINE; CHLORIDE; CHLORINE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER; N [3 (4 FLUOROPHENYL) 3 (4 PHENYLPHENOXY)PROPYL]SARCOSINE; SODIUM; SODIUM COUPLED AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SODIUM CELL LEVEL; SODIUM CURRENT; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, NEUTRAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GLYCINE; GLYCINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE;

EID: 4444372441     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.070763     Document Type: Article

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