Excitatory amino acid transporters in the zebrafish. Letter to " Expression and functional analysis of Na+-dependent glutamate transporters from zebrafish brain" from Rico et al.

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 202-206

  Gesemann, Matthias ^a   Maurer, Colette M ^a   Neuhauss, Stephan C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acid transporter; Glutamate; Phylogenetic; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EXONS; GLUTAMATE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 77957679401     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2010.04.018     Document Type: Article

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