α6* Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expression and function in a visual salience circuit

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 10226-10237

  Mackey, Elisha D W ^b   Engle, Staci E ^a   Kim, Mi Ran ^a   O'Neill, Heidi C ^c   Wageman, Charles R ^c   Patzlaff, Natalie E ^c   Wang, Ying ^b   Grady, Sharon R ^c   Michael McIntosh, J ^d   Marks, Michael J ^c   Lester, Henry A ^b   Drenan, Ryan M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATENT PERIOD; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PATCH CLAMP; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RADIOASSAY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTOSOME; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84864218749     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0007-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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