Subunit compensation and plasticity of synaptic GABA A receptors induced by ethanol in α4 subunit knockout mice

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2011, Pages

  Suryanarayanan, Asha ^a   Liang, Jing ^a,b   Meyer, Edward M ^a   Lindemeyer, A Kerstin ^b   Chandra, Dev ^c   Homanics, Gregg E ^c   Sieghart, Werner ^d   Olsen, Richard W ^b   Spigelman, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Dentate gyrus; Dependence; Internalization; Receptor trafficking; Synaptic transmission; Tolerance; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALCOHOL; ZOLPIDEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROSS LINKING; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; GENE DELETION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84859436411     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00110     Document Type: Article

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