Microtransplantation of neurotransmitter receptors from postmortem autistic brains to Xenopus oocytes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 10973-10977

  Limon, Agenor ^a   Reyes Ruiz, Jorge Mauricio ^a   Miledi, Ricardo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c 2205 McGaugh Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; GABA receptors; Glutamate receptors; Human brain

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CADAVER; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; OOCYTES; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; XENOPUS;

EID: 49449096615     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804386105     Document Type: Article

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