Brain-derived neurotrophic factor rapidly increases AMPA receptor surface expression in rat nucleus accumbens

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 190-198

  Li, Xuan ^a   Wolf, Marina E ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca 2+ permeable AMPA receptor; Cocaine; ERK; TrkB

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; AMPA RECEPTOR GLUA1; AMPA RECEPTOR GLUA2; AMPA RECEPTOR GLUA3; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN ENZYME; CALCIUM ION; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TROPOMYOSIN RECEPTOR KINASE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79960423719     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07754.x     Document Type: Article

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