GABA and neuroligin signaling: linking synaptic activity and adhesion in inhibitory synapse development

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-83

  Huang, Z Josh ^a   Scheiffele, Peter ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; NEUROLIGIN;

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL INHIBITION; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 46549088971     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2008.05.008     Document Type: Review

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