Defective glycinergic synaptic transmission in zebrafish motility mutants

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue JAN, 2010, Pages

  Hirata, Hiromi ^a   Carta, Eloisa ^b   Yamanaka, Iori ^a   Harvey, Robert J ^b   Kuwada, John Y ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Glycine; Motility; Receptor; Synapse; Transporter; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650925634     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.02.026.2009     Document Type: Review

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