Homeostatic regulation of gephyrin scaffolds and synaptic strength at mature hippocampal gabaergic postsynapses

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2700-2711

  Vlachos, Andreas ^a   Reddy Alla, Suneel ^a,b,c   Papadopoulos, Theofilos ^b,d   Deller, Thomas ^a   Betz, Heinrich ^b,e  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

activity dependent regulation; fluorescence recovery after photobleaching; organotypic slice culture; synaptic plasticity; whole cell patch clamp recording

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIAZEPAM; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GEPHYRIN; THY 1 ANTIGEN; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VITRO STUDY; LONG TERM CARE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSORY NERVE; SLICE CULTURE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; ORGANOTYPIC SLICE CULTURE; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY; WHOLE-CELL PATCH-CLAMP RECORDING;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMEOSTASIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MINIATURE POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, GABA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84885903172     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs260     Document Type: Article

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