Loss of mTOR repressors Tsc1 or Pten has divergent effects on excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in single hippocampal neuron cultures

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Weston, Matthew C ^a,b   Chen, Hongmei ^a,b   Swann, John W ^a,b  

^a Cain Foundation Laboratories   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Akt; Autism; Epilepsy; Excitatory transmission; Inhibitory transmission; Pten; Synaptic Transmission; TSC mTOR

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EXCITATORY TRANSMISSION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONAL CULTURE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBITORY TRANSMISSION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PTEN GENE; SOMATIC CELL; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TSC1 GENE;

EID: 84893282260     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2014.00001     Document Type: Article

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