Electrical coupling among irregular-spiking GABAergic interneurons expressing cannabinoid receptors

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 44, 2004, Pages 9770-9778

  Galarreta, Mario ^a   Erdélyi, Ferenc ^b   Szabó, Gábor ^b   Hestrin, Shaul ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cannabinoids; CB1; Electrical synapses; GABAergic; Interneuron; Irregular spiking

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GAP JUNCTIONS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPSES;

EID: 7744244072     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3027-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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