How voltage-gated calcium channels gate forms of homeostatic synaptic plasticity

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Andrew Frank, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium channelopathies; Homeostatic synaptic plasticity; Neurotransmitter release; Synaptic growth; Synaptic scaling; VGCCs

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCINEURIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ATAXIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPILEPSY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; MIGRAINE; MYASTHENIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84894058880     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00040     Document Type: Review

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