Recent advances in gene manipulation and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor biology

Biochemical Pharmacology

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 808-819

  Tammimäki, Anne ^a   Horton, William J ^a   Stitzel, Jerry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembly partners; Knock in; Lentivirus; Localization; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; Targeted re expression

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; AMPHETAMINE; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CALCIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; DOPAMINE; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; REAGENT; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANALGESIA; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BINDING AFFINITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DESENSITIZATION; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DYSTONIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FORELIMB; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENTIVIRINAE; LIFESPAN; LIGAND BINDING; LOCOMOTION; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEIZURE; TAIL FLICK TEST; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSGENICS; WAKEFULNESS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DRUG DISCOVERY; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 80052027888     PISSN: 00062952     EISSN: 18732968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2011.06.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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