A new splice variant of the glutamate-aspartate transporter: Cloning and immunolocalization of GLAST1c in rat, pig and human brains

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-63

  Lee, Aven ^a   Anderson, Ashley R ^a   Beasley, Shannon J ^a   Barnett, Nigel L ^a   Poronnik, Philip ^b   Pow, David V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; EAAT; Excitotoxicity; GLAST; Oligodendrocyte

Indexed keywords

EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GLAST1C; PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL STRAIN COS7; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; HUMANS; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; SWINE;

EID: 84856554598     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: 18736300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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