Molecular and functional diversity of GABA-A receptors in the enteric nervous system of the mouse colon

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 10361-10378

  Seifi, Mohsen ^a   Brown, James F ^a   Mills, Jeremy ^a   Bhandari, Pradeep ^a,b   Belelli, Delia ^c   Lambert, Jeremy J ^c   Rudolph, Uwe ^d   Swinny, Jerome D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Alprazolam; Immunohistochemistry; Inflammatory bowel disease; Irritable bowel syndrome; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; STRESS;

ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COLON; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GABA AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SOMATOSTATIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 84904985821     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0441-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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