Developmental maturation of ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits in rat vestibular nuclear neurons responsive to vertical linear acceleration

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2157-2172

  Lai, Suk King ^a   Lai, Chun Hong ^a   Tse, Yiu Chung ^a   Yung, Ken K L ^b   Shum, Daisy K Y ^a   Chan, Ying Shing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

c fos; Glutamate receptor; Gravity; Postnatal

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; PROTEIN FOS; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACCELERATION; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; GRAVITY SENSING; MALE; NEURONS; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; POSTURAL BALANCE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

EID: 56749152461     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06523.x     Document Type: Article

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