Differentiated human midbrain-derived neural progenitor cells express excitatory strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors containing α2β subunits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wegner, Florian ^a   Kraft, Robert ^b   Busse, Kathy ^b   Härtig, Wolfgang ^b   Ahrens, Jörg ^a   Leffler, Andreas ^a   Dengler, Reinhard ^a   Schwarz, Johannes ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; SODIUM POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; STRYCHNINE; GLRA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GLRB PROTEIN, HUMAN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN FETAL MIDBRAIN DERIVED NEURAL PROGENITOR CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM POTENTIAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEM CELL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENETICS; MESENCEPHALON; METABOLISM; NEURAL STEM CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATCH CLAMP;

STRYCHNOS TOXIFERA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; STRYCHNINE;

EID: 84861014574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036946     Document Type: Article

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