Synaptic-type α1β2γ2L GABAa receptors produce large persistent currents in the presence of ambient GABA and anesthetic drugs

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 776-781

  Li, Ping ^a   Akk, Gustav ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALFAXALONE; ALPHA1BETA2GAMMA2L 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ETOMIDATE; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANESTHETIC AGENT; PREGNANEDIONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; EC50; EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; MAXIMALLY EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE CURRENT; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DRUG EFFECTS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; ETOMIDATE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; PENTOBARBITAL; PREGNANEDIONES; PROPOFOL; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 84930671715     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.114.096453     Document Type: Article

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