The potassium chloride cotransporter KCC-2 coordinates development of inhibitory neurotransmission and synapse structure in Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 9943-9954

  Tanis, Jessica E ^a   Bellemer, Andrew ^a   Moresco, James J ^a,b   Forbush, Biff ^a   Koelle, Michael R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; FUROSEMIDE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER KCC2; PROTEIN EGL 47; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EGG LAYING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHLORIDES; FUROSEMIDE; HYPOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SODIUM POTASSIUM CHLORIDE SYMPORTER INHIBITORS; SYMPORTERS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 68849127731     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1989-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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