Interplay of chemical neurotransmitters regulates developmental increase in electrical synapses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5909-5920

  Park, Won Mee ^a   Wang, Yongfu ^a   Park, Soodong ^b   Denisova, Janna V ^a   Fontes, Joseph D ^b   Belousov, Andrei B ^a  

^a Molecular and Integrative Physiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ION; CONNEXIN 36; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MESSENGER RNA; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE C;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CX36 GENE; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILENCER ELEMENT; UPREGULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONNEXINS; ELECTRICAL SYNAPSES; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79955752342     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6787-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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