Setting the time course of inhibitory synaptic currents by mixing multiple GABAA receptor α subunit isoforms

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5853-5867

  Eyre, Mark D ^a   Renzi, Massimiliano ^b,c   Farrant, Mark ^b   Nusser, Zoltan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA4; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA5; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR GAMMA2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GEPHYRIN; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CEREBELLUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GABA AGENTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84860202956     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6495-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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