Up-regulation of GABA transporters and GABAA receptor α1 subunit in tremor rat hippocampus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 486, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 150-155

  Mao, Xiaoyuan ^a   Guo, Feng ^a   Yu, Junling ^a   Min, Dongyu ^a   Wang, Zhanyou ^a   Xie, Ni ^a   Chen, Tianbao ^b   Shaw, Chris ^b   Cai, Jiqun ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GABA; GABA receptor; GABA transporters; Hippocampus; Synaptosome; Tremor rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER 1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER 3; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTOSOME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; GABA PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE THERAPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING, NEUROLOGIC; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; TREMOR; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 78049366115     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.09.033     Document Type: Article

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