New insights on the role of gephyrin in regulating both phasic and tonic GABAergic inhibition in rat hippocampal neurons in culture

Neuroscience

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 552-562

  Marchionni, I ^a   Kasap, Z ^a   Mozrzymas, J W ^b   Sieghart, W ^c   Cherubini, E ^a   Zacchi, P ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

GABAA receptors gating; GABAergic innervation; immunocytochemistry; recombinant antibodies; synaptic and extrasynaptic GABAA receptors; VGAT

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; GEPHYRIN; SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SINGLE-CHAIN ANTIBODIES; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 70349731944     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.07.063     Document Type: Article

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