Astroglial amino acid-based transmitter receptors

Amino Acids

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1151-1158

  Parpura, Vladimir ^a,b   Verkhratsky, Alexei ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Astrocytes; Glia; Receptors; Transmitters

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; AMINO ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR; ASPARTIC ACID; DEXTRO SERINE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; ION CHANNEL; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; TAURINE;

ASTROCYTE; BRAIN; CELLULAR SIGNALING; GLIA; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, AMINO ACID; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876685085     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-013-1458-4     Document Type: Review

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