Activity-dependent neurotransmitter respecification

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 94-106

  Spitzer, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR;

HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84856058121     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3154     Document Type: Review

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